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Fenholloway, Florida

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Perry South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32348. The Survey maps it on the Fenholloway quadrangle.

Fenholloway 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 Fenholloway, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Fenholloway, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

264 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 264 fires within 5 miles of Fenholloway between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,128 acres in total. 33 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
Debris and open burning64
Equipment and vehicle use45
Natural33
Railroad operations and maintenance32
Arson/incendiarism25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Smoking9
Recreation and ceremony7
Other causes2
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2003Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePARKER FIRE #2 (OF2)
9 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePARKER FIRE #1 (OF 2)
23 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceJACKSON ROAD (62)
22 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePOWER COUNTRY (62)
18 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service62 - THE GRILL FIRE - 0217
16 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceFALLEN TREE (62)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taylor County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fenholloway in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2022Thunderstorm WindFenholloway$25,000A storm survey indicated that straight line winds of 80 to 90 mph resulted in snapped trees, a destroyed shed, and roof damage in an area east of Perry along San Pedro Road.
May 2012Heavy RainFenholloway-A storm total of 4.65 inches was measured through 5 am EDT at the Suwannee River Water Management District rain gauge FOLF1.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindFenholloway-A trained spotter east of Perry estimated winds near 65 mph with power out at his residence.

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
Foley1.9 miles9
Bucell Junction3.2 miles9
Pinland4.4 miles9
Perry5.3 miles9
Athena6.2 miles10
Hampton Springs8.4 miles10
Boyd9.7 miles8
Secotan10.0 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 Q122598787The 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 282418. 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.