Early, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Wewahitchka census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32465. It stands on Wilburn Branch. The Survey maps it on the Wetappo Creek quadrangle.

Early within Gulf County

Then and now

1945 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 49 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Early, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Early, surveyed 1945

Compare 1945 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1945 USGS Wetappo Creek quadrangle1:24000
1945 USGS Wetappo Creek quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Panama City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Wetappo Creek quadrangle1:24000
1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1994 USGS Wetappo Creek quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

125 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Early between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,724 acres in total. 53 started naturally. 8 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Natural	53
Debris and open burning	19
Railroad operations and maintenance	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Arson/incendiarism	8
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	2
Other causes	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 2015	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	WHIPPOORWILL MARSH (23)
6 September 2014	Natural	1.1 acres	Florida Forest Service	WETAPPO 155 (23)
5 September 2015	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	WHIPPOORWILL (23)
11 September 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	15 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
9 August 1993	Natural	4.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
9 August 1993	Natural	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
6 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,848 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
31 August 1997	Natural	65 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gulf County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Majette	3.6 miles	16
Overstreet	3.7 miles	15
Honeyville	6.8 miles	15
Gaskins Still	7.0 miles	15
Beacon Hill	8.3 miles	15
Wewahitchka	8.3 miles	15
Wetappo	8.5 miles	15
Dalkeith	8.5 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 300141. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.