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Ellisville, Florida

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Fort White census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32025. The Survey maps it on the Ellisville quadrangle.

Ellisville within Columbia County

Then and now

1954 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 40 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ellisville, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Ellisville, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

227 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 227 fires within 5 miles of Ellisville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 704 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 7 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 burning83
Railroad operations and maintenance48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Equipment and vehicle use23
Natural9
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Arson/incendiarism7
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony1

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
17 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSOUTHBOUND WRECK (12)
14 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service12-I-75 FIRE-1138
11 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTANNER ROAD FIRE-1462
9 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.6 acresFlorida Forest Service06-12-POUNDS HAMMOCK 2 FIRE
8 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFlorida Forest Service06-12-MYRTIS RD FIRE-1117
31 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceNW 52ND PLACE(63)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this place

10 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ellisville in 10 storm reports between 2007 and 2021: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 1 funnel cloud, 1 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
July 2014Thunderstorm WindEllisville$200A tree was blown down and some trees limbs were blown on a shed. The cost of property damage was unknown and estimated for the event to be included in Storm Data.
July 2021Heavy RainEllisville-An observer measured 4.68 inches of storm total rainfall.
June 2021FloodEllisville-A photo on social media showed the last half mile of Bible Camp Road was flooded under water by several inches. This was near the Santa Fe River.
August 2021FloodEllisville-Street flooding covered SW Howell Street.
August 2021FloodEllisville-Street flooding across SW Haltwinger Road caused partial road closure.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindEllisville-Numeorus trees were blown down across the county. The time of damage was based on radar.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindEllisville-A couple trees and several limbs were blown down near the Oleno State Park ranger office. The time of damage was based on radar.
February 2013Thunderstorm WindEllisville-A roof was blown off and many trees were blown down along Sunview Street. The time of damage was based on radar imagery.
May 2012Funnel CloudEllisville-Several public reports of a funnel cloud near Oleno State Park. No damage was seen when officials arrived to survey.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindEllisville-Trees were down along Highway 441, according to Oleno State Park.

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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
Mason2.5 miles9
Mikesville4.0 miles10
Myrtis4.3 miles9
Ebenezer6.5 miles9
Columbia7.1 miles8
Fort White8.3 miles10
Bass8.9 miles8
Lulu9.1 miles8

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on EllisvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16890991The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 294755. 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.