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Fort Brook Landing, Florida

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1993. It lies in ZIP code area 32148. It stands on Orange Creek. The Survey maps it on the Keuka quadrangle.

Fort Brook Landing within Marion County

Then and now

1915 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fort Brook Landing, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Fort Brook Landing, surveyed 1915

Compare 1915 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 24 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

203 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 203 fires within 5 miles of Fort Brook Landing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,886 acres in total. 73 started naturally. 13 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
Natural73
Debris and open burning34
Equipment and vehicle use28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Arson/incendiarism13
Recreation and ceremony6
Other causes5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1

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
22 September 2014Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceKENWOOD DRIVE (54)
21 September 1997Arson/incendiarism3.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 August 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePUTNAM/ 530 FIRE
17 August 1995Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 August 2020Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceNW 220TH ST (42)
13 August 2016Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSPRUCE RD (54)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion 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
Hog Valley1.5 miles9
Orange Springs2.1 miles24
Tobacco Patch Landing5.9 miles9
Bay Lake5.9 miles9
Eureka9.8 miles10
Fort McCoy10.8 miles10
Point Pleasant11.9 miles9
Kerr City12.0 miles9

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 Q122547718The 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 305692. 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.