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Foley, Florida

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

Foley 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 Foley, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Foley, surveyed 1954

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

363 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 363 fires within 5 miles of Foley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,249 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 30 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 burning101
Equipment and vehicle use62
Railroad operations and maintenance42
Misuse of fire by a minor30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism30
Natural29
Smoking15
Power generation/transmission/distribution14
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 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHOMER J. SMITH(62)
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)
16 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taylor County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Foley in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2018: 3 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
March 2018Thunderstorm WindFoley$2,000Fallen trees or limbs resulted in a power outage to 86 customers in the Foley area via the Duke Energy outage website.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindFoley$2,000Trees were blown down on Foley Cutoff Road near Perry. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindFoley-A medium sized tree was blown down on Glover Carlton Road.
June 2012Heavy RainFoley-A storm total rainfall of 11.19 inches fell during Tropical Storm Debby.

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
Bucell Junction1.3 miles9
Fenholloway1.9 miles9
Pinland3.5 miles9
Perry4.3 miles9
Athena5.9 miles10
Hampton Springs6.7 miles10
Boyd9.2 miles8
Secotan9.2 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 282642. 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.