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.
Then and now
1954 to 2006The 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 sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Eddy quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Eddy quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Okefenokee Swamp quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Eddy quadrangle1:24000
- 2006 USGS Eddy quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
52 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 21 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge | NAT-OUT 5 |
| 7 August 1999 | Natural | under an acre | National Forests in Florida | STORYBOOK |
| 7 July 2011 | Natural | 2.0 acres | National Forests in Florida | FLORIDA 2 |
| 6 July 2011 | Natural | 5.7 acres | National Forests in Florida | 295 |
| 26 July 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | FLORIDA 2 POWERLINE (02) |
| 11 July 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge | SAPP PRAIRIE |
| 9 June 2011 | Natural | 14 acres | Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge | FL-1 (MOCCASIN SWAMP) |
| 8 June 1993 | Natural | 5,711 acres | Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge | GNATCATCHE |
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 67 shownRegional 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fomitopsis palustris (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Gilb. & Ryvarden | 1902 | R. M. Harper | About a 1.2 mile N of Moniac | |
| Polyporus palustris Berk. & M.A.Curtis | 1902 | Harper R. M. | Moniac | |
| Contracaecum spiculigerum (Rudolphi, 1809) Railliet & Henry, 1912 | 1913 | E. Holt | Long Island | |
| Enneacanthus Gill, 1864 | 1921 | Francis Harper | Moniac | |
![]() | Terrapene carolina (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1931 | not recorded | MONIAC |
| Procambarus kilbyi (Hobbs, 1940) | 1938 | Hobbs | 1.4 mi. E. of Taylor Hwy. 5a at County line | |
![]() | Bufo terrestris (Bonnaterre, 1789) | 1941 | A.E. Daugherty | U.S. Hwy 94, 5 mi N of Moniac |
| Pseudacris ornata (Holbrook, 1836) | 1941 | A.E. Daugherty | U.S. Hwy 94, 5 mi N of Moniac | |
| Centrarchus macropterus (Lacepède, 1801) | 1947 | J.D. Kilby, et al. | 4.4 mi. S of Baxter, Ellis Bay Pond | |
| Fundulus cingulatus Valenciennes, 1846 | 1947 | JD Kilby,A Chable,Dowling | 4.4 mi S of Baxter at Ellis Bay Pond, above & below broken earth dam | |
| Lepomis marginatus (Holbrook, 1855) | 1947 | Reid | Alachua County Orange Lake. | |
| Umbra pygmaea (DeKay, 1842) | 1947 | JD Kilby,A Chable,Dowling | 4.4 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 2014Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2025 | Heavy Rain | Eddy | - | The Eddy Tower RAWS measured 3.08 inches of rainfall since 7 am local time. |
| November 2023 | Heavy Rain | Eddy | - | The Eddy Tower RAWS measured 2.92 inches in 24 hours. |
| April 2022 | Heavy Rain | Eddy | - | The RAWs station Eddy Tower measured 3.62 inches of rainfall since midnight. |
| July 2019 | Heavy Rain | Eddy | - | The RAWs at Eddy Tower measured 2.54 inches of rainfall within the past 6 hours. |
| November 2019 | Heavy Rain | Eddy | - | Storm total rainfall from a mesonet site RAWS Eddy Tower. |
| May 2014 | Heavy Rain | Eddy | - | The Eddy Tower RAWS station measured 4.55 inches in 24 hours. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sargent | 5.2 miles | 8 | |
| Baxter | 5.9 miles | 11 | |
| Taylor | 7.5 miles | 10 | |
| Kenny | 13.9 miles | 14 | |
| Margaretta | 20.2 miles | 14 | |
| Sanderson | 20.4 miles | 9 | |
| Pine Top | 20.4 miles | 14 | |
| Glen Saint Mary | 20.7 miles | 14 |
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.









