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Eridu, Florida

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Perry North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32331. The Survey maps it on the Shady Grove quadrangle.

Eridu within Taylor County

Then and now

1954 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 25 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Eridu, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Eridu, 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

116 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Eridu between 1992 and 2020, burning about 382 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 10 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 use57
Debris and open burning24
Arson/incendiarism10
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Natural6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
27 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest Service40- SEBER FIRE #0461
1 August 2014Debris and open burning15 acresFlorida Forest ServiceALTON WENTWORTH RD #2 (62)
18 July 2007Natural9.4 acresFlorida Forest Service40 - SLEEPING PILOT FIRE #0415
28 June 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceCANE SYRUP (40)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taylor 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 Eridu: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Water, Free, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Magnesite, Uranium, Iron. 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
Taylor County Deposit #1Phosphorus-Phosphates, Water, Free, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Magnesite, Uranium, IronOccurrence1967

Every working recorded in Taylor County

Storms near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eridu in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2014: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2000Thunderstorm WindEridu$10,000Numerous trees and power lines down in and around Eridu. County Road 14 was blocked by fallen debris. Reported by SKYWARN storm spotter.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindEridu$1,000A tree was blown down in the Eridu area in Taylor county.
March 2013HailEridu-A motorist reported hail slightly larger than quarters along U.S. Highway 27 in northwest Taylor county.

Every storm recorded in Taylor 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
Iddo2.0 miles10
Covington5.0 miles10
Shady Grove6.2 miles10
Cabbage Grove9.2 miles9
Secotan10.5 miles10
Boyd10.8 miles8
Waylonzo12.4 miles9
San Juan de Guacara (historical)12.8 miles9

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 EriduAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54322491The 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 282244. 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.