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Ellzey, Florida

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Cedar Key-Yankeetown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32683. The Survey maps it on the Otter Creek quadrangle.

Ellzey within Levy County

Then and now

1954 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 24 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ellzey, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Ellzey, surveyed 1954

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

148 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Ellzey between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,191 acres in total. 94 started naturally. 3 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
Natural94
Equipment and vehicle use15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning11
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Arson/incendiarism3
Other causes2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
3 September 2001Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2011Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSWILLY ISLAND(38)
21 September 2011Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePALMETTO(38)
12 September 1995Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2008Natural10 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLEVY/1114 GADS BAY FIRE
8 August 1993Natural8.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 1993Natural30 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 August 2001Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Levy County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ellzey: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Dolomite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hammock Dolomite ProspectDolomiteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Levy County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ellzey in 1 storm report in 2014: 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
August 2014Thunderstorm WindEllzey$2,000Public reported two trees down south of Chiefland.

Every storm recorded in Levy 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
Otter Creek1.5 miles10
Gulf Hammock5.2 miles10
Usher6.8 miles11
Rosewood8.9 miles11
Beetree Ford9.5 miles11
Sumner11.3 miles11
Chiefland11.8 miles11
Bronson12.4 miles10

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.

Wikidata item Q122563072The 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 295265. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.