Escambia, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the West Liberty census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32321. It stands on Fields Branch. The Survey maps it on the Kennedy Creek quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Escambia within Liberty County

Then and now

1945 to 1990

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 Escambia (historical), surveyed 1990

Topographic sheet of Escambia (historical), surveyed 1945

Compare 1945 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1945 USGS Kennedy Creek quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1945 USGS Kennedy Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Panama City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Kennedy Creek quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

56 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Escambia (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,879 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 8 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
Natural	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Arson/incendiarism	8
Recreation and ceremony	7
Debris and open burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	National Forests in Florida	MINI MARK III
16 September 2019	Natural	769 acres	National Forests in Florida	FISH CAMP
10 September 1996	Natural	99 acres	National Forests in Florida	LITTLE OWL CREEK
6 August 1996	Natural	12 acres	National Forests in Florida	FLAT
28 August 1993	Natural	4.0 acres	National Forests in Florida	not named
23 August 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	National Forests in Florida	BLACK CREEK
2 August 2019	Natural	62 acres	National Forests in Florida	104
9 July 2016	Natural	under an acre	National Forests in Florida	106

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Liberty 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Owl Landing	2.8 miles	15
Sumatra	4.3 miles	14
White Oak Landing	4.7 miles	15
Bon Ami	5.6 miles	14
Kern	6.4 miles	13
Wilma	8.5 miles	13
Estanifanulga (historical)	9.2 miles	15
Twin Pole	11.2 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 306989. 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.