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Fletcher, Florida

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cross City North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32680. The Survey maps it on the Wannee quadrangle.

Fletcher within Dixie County

Then and now

1954 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 27 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fletcher, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Fletcher, surveyed 1954

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

193 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 193 fires within 5 miles of Fletcher between 1992 and 2020, burning about 755 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 17 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 use46
Debris and open burning43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Railroad operations and maintenance25
Arson/incendiarism17
Natural14
Recreation and ceremony7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking4
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
19 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHAINLINE (15)
7 August 1993Equipment and vehicle use45 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 August 2016Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTRADING POST (15)
19 August 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 August 2009Natural2.5 acresFlorida Forest Service15-SAND HILL-#0206
13 August 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service15 - STUMP FIRE #0442
6 July 1998Natural8.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dixie County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Fletcher: 14 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Dempseys Farm QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Sander's Carl Farm QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dixie County

Storms near this place

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fletcher in 1 storm report in 1998: 1 tornado. 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
September 1998Tornado (F0)Fletcher$100,000An F0 tornado destroyed two mobile homes and uprooted several trees 10 miles north of Old Town.

Every storm recorded in Dixie 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
Dixietown2.3 miles11
Suwanee Old Town (historical)8.6 miles10
Old Town9.6 miles10
Cross City10.5 miles10
Eugene10.5 miles10
Shamrock10.8 miles10
Hines13.3 miles10
Jonesboro16.7 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295283. 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.