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Flowersville, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Paxton-Darlington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32567. The Survey maps it on the Paxton quadrangle.

Flowersville within Walton County

Then and now

1949 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 29 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Flowersville, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Flowersville, surveyed 1949

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

140 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Flowersville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 990 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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 burning43
Railroad operations and maintenance34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use17
Arson/incendiarism9
Smoking9
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes1
Natural1
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
8 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Service66/PERKINS ROAD
30 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2019Smoking10 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCO HWY 147 (66)
22 September 1999Smokingunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSTEEL MILL CREEK ROAD (46)
30 August 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 August 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walton 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 Flowersville: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand. 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
White Construction Company, Inc. - Pleasant Grove MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Walton County

Storms near this place

4 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Flowersville in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 flash flood. 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
April 2014Thunderstorm WindFlowersville$10,000A tree was blown down onto a house on Long Road. Monetary damage was estimated.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindFlowersville-A tree was blown down at County Road 2 and Cox Road.
April 2014FloodFlowersville-Cawthon Road was closed due to flooding.
April 2014Flash FloodFlowersville-Part of Long Road was underwater near a creek that eventually flows in the Shoal River in northern Walton County.

Every storm recorded in Walton 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
Pleasant Grove1.4 miles14
Clear Springs1.8 miles14
Paxton2.5 miles14
Lakewood3.8 miles14
Gordon5.4 miles14
New Harmony7.6 miles13
Caney Creek7.8 miles13
Ealum9.3 miles12

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 Q122549497The 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 294772. 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.