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Eleven Mile, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Apalachicola census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32456. The Survey maps it on the Indian Pass quadrangle.

Eleven Mile within Franklin County

Then and now

1943 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Eleven Mile, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Eleven Mile, surveyed 1943

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 15 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

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Eleven Mile between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,882 acres in total. 46 started naturally. 1 was 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
Natural46
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1
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
9 September 1999Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1995Natural38 acresSt. Vincent National Wildlife RefugeF6
6 September 2020Natural374 acresSt. Vincent National Wildlife RefugeINDIAN PASS FIRE
30 September 1993Debris and open burning21 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 August 1998Railroad operations and maintenance15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 August 1997Debris and open burning86 acresSt. Vincent National Wildlife RefugeD3
24 August 2005Natural1.0 acresSt. Vincent National Wildlife RefugeD-56 EAGLE
24 August 1993Natural15 acresSt. Vincent National Wildlife RefugePICALENE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eleven Mile in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2019Thunderstorm WindEleven Mile-A large tree branch was removed from Highway 30A.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Nine Mile1.8 miles16
Tilton4.3 miles16
Franklin7.2 miles16
Two Mile7.7 miles16
Bay City7.8 miles16
Apalachicola9.1 miles17
Achackwaithle (historical)10.8 miles16
Magnolia Bluffs13.6 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295262. 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.