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Ellerbee, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Raiford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32083. The Survey maps it on the Raiford quadrangle.

Ellerbee within Union County

Then and now

1918 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 63 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ellerbee, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Ellerbee, surveyed 1918

Compare 1918 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

188 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 188 fires within 5 miles of Ellerbee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,137 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 25 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
Equipment and vehicle use61
Arson/incendiarism25
Natural25
Railroad operations and maintenance23
Debris and open burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony2
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
5 September 1994Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Service03-04-NW 261ST FIRE-1302
19 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2007Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service03-04-LITTLE PINE FIRE-1165
9 August 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceANDERSON RD (63)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ellerbee in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 4 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
June 2025Thunderstorm WindEllerbee$200Union county EM reported a large tree fell across SR 121. The time of damage was estimated by radar. The cost was unknown, but it was estimated for inclusion of the event in Storm Data.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindEllerbee-Multiple trees were blown down.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindEllerbee-Multiple trees were blown down along County Road 229 in NE Union County.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindEllerbee-Trees were blown down along State Highway 121.

Every storm recorded in Union 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
Raiford3.3 miles13
Johnstown5.5 miles9
Lake Butler9.1 miles9
Cliftonville10.7 miles8
Danville11.4 miles9
Guilford11.5 miles8
Brown14.0 miles8
Dukes14.4 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 300828. 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.