Fish Creek, Florida

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Perry South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32348. It stands on Fish Creek. The Survey maps it on the Keaton Beach quadrangle.

Fish Creek within Taylor 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 Fish Creek, surveyed 1978

Topographic sheet of Fish Creek, 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.

1954 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Keaton Beach quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Cross City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

74 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Fish Creek between 1993 and 2020, burning about 209 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 18 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
Arson/incendiarism	18
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Natural	13
Debris and open burning	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Smoking	2
Other causes	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
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
6 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
4 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
4 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
3 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	BLUE CREEK (62)
11 September 1998	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
3 August 2016	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	ROSEMARY LANE (62)
26 August 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
19 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Keaton Beach	2.9 miles	10
Howell Place	3.5 miles	10
Dekle Beach	5.0 miles	10
Dallus Creek Landing	6.4 miles	11
Salem	10.9 miles	10
Carbur	11.9 miles	10
Steinhatchee	12.6 miles	11
Tennille	13.1 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295279. 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.