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Ebb, Florida

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Greenville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32331. The Survey maps it on the Shady Grove quadrangle.

Ebb within Madison County

Then and now

1954 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 25 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ebb, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Ebb, surveyed 1954

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

Fires near this place

133 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Ebb between 1992 and 2020, burning about 772 acres in total. 6 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
Debris and open burning41
Equipment and vehicle use36
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism8
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural6
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1
Smoking1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service40-0178 MACEDONIA FIRE/NOV
1 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 1993Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 August 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 August 2011Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceOCALA (40)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ebb in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2015Thunderstorm WindEbb$2,000A tree was blown down onto a power line just off of Highway 221.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindEbb$1,000A few trees and power lines down. Reported by the public.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindEbb-Debris blocked the southbound lanes and partially blocked the northbound lanes of Highway 221 along the Taylor-Madison county border.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindEbb-A tree was blown down on Highway 221 south near Moseley Hall Road.
March 2005HailEbb-Nickel size hail reported by a SKYWARN storm spotter.

Every storm recorded in Madison 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Sirmans0.3 miles10
Ahosulga (historical)5.8 miles9
Aucilla (historical)7.5 miles9
Toponanaulka (historical)7.5 miles9
Stern7.8 miles9
San Lorenzo Ibitachuco (historical)7.9 miles10
Greenville8.1 miles9
New Mikasuki (historical)9.0 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 294408. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.