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Eddy, Florida

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 2006. It stands in the Sanderson census division. It lies near Crews Island. The Survey maps it on the Eddy quadrangle.

Eddy within Baker County

Then and now

1954 to 2006

The same ground, surveyed 52 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Eddy, surveyed 2006
Topographic sheet of Eddy, surveyed 1954

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 9 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

52 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Eddy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 310,897 acres in total. 21 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
Natural21
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism8
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
11 September 1998Naturalunder an acreOkefenokee National Wildlife RefugeNAT-OUT 5
7 August 1999Naturalunder an acreNational Forests in FloridaSTORYBOOK
7 July 2011Natural2.0 acresNational Forests in FloridaFLORIDA 2
6 July 2011Natural5.7 acresNational Forests in Florida295
26 July 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceFLORIDA 2 POWERLINE (02)
11 July 2007Naturalunder an acreOkefenokee National Wildlife RefugeSAPP PRAIRIE
9 June 2011Natural14 acresOkefenokee National Wildlife RefugeFL-1 (MOCCASIN SWAMP)
8 June 1993Natural5,711 acresOkefenokee National Wildlife RefugeGNATCATCHE

Every fire recorded in Baker County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 67 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 67 specimens collected within 10 miles of Eddy between 1902 and 1975: 63 Animalia, 2 Fungi, 2 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. F. Newton, A.E. Daugherty, C. Gilbert and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Fomitopsis palustris (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Gilb. & Ryvarden1902R. M. HarperAbout a 1.2 mile N of Moniac
Polyporus palustris Berk. & M.A.Curtis1902Harper R. M.Moniac
Contracaecum spiculigerum (Rudolphi, 1809) Railliet & Henry, 19121913E. HoltLong Island
Enneacanthus Gill, 18641921Francis HarperMoniac
A photograph of the species Terrapene carolina, not of this specimenTerrapene carolina (Linnaeus, 1758)1931not recordedMONIAC
Procambarus kilbyi (Hobbs, 1940)1938Hobbs1.4 mi. E. of Taylor Hwy. 5a at County line
A photograph of the species Bufo terrestris, not of this specimenBufo terrestris (Bonnaterre, 1789)1941A.E. DaughertyU.S. Hwy 94, 5 mi N of Moniac
Pseudacris ornata (Holbrook, 1836)1941A.E. DaughertyU.S. Hwy 94, 5 mi N of Moniac
Centrarchus macropterus (Lacepède, 1801)1947J.D. Kilby, et al.4.4 mi. S of Baxter, Ellis Bay Pond
Fundulus cingulatus Valenciennes, 18461947JD Kilby,A Chable,Dowling4.4 mi S of Baxter at Ellis Bay Pond, above & below broken earth dam
Lepomis marginatus (Holbrook, 1855)1947ReidAlachua County Orange Lake.
Umbra pygmaea (DeKay, 1842)1947JD Kilby,A Chable,Dowling4.4 mi S of Baxter at Ellis Bay Pond, above & below broken earth dam

All 67 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

6 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eddy in 6 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 6 heavy rain. 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
March 2025Heavy RainEddy-The Eddy Tower RAWS measured 3.08 inches of rainfall since 7 am local time.
November 2023Heavy RainEddy-The Eddy Tower RAWS measured 2.92 inches in 24 hours.
April 2022Heavy RainEddy-The RAWs station Eddy Tower measured 3.62 inches of rainfall since midnight.
July 2019Heavy RainEddy-The RAWs at Eddy Tower measured 2.54 inches of rainfall within the past 6 hours.
November 2019Heavy RainEddy-Storm total rainfall from a mesonet site RAWS Eddy Tower.
May 2014Heavy RainEddy-The Eddy Tower RAWS station measured 4.55 inches in 24 hours.

Every storm recorded in Baker 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
Sargent5.2 miles8
Baxter5.9 miles11
Taylor7.5 miles10
Kenny13.9 miles14
Margaretta20.2 miles14
Sanderson20.4 miles9
Pine Top20.4 miles14
Glen Saint Mary20.7 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295255. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.