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Fort Drane, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Reddick-McIntosh census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32686. The Survey maps it on the Flemington quadrangle.

Fort Drane within Marion County

Then and now

1895 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 83 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 Drane, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Fort Drane, surveyed 1895

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Fort Drane between 1992 and 2020, burning about 416 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning27
Railroad operations and maintenance20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 June 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMARION/210TH STREET FIRE
16 June 2007Debris and open burning8.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMARION/90TH AVE
7 May 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 May 1996Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 May 2011Debris and open burning5.5 acresFlorida Forest Service42/FLEMINGTON FIRE
14 May 2003Equipment and vehicle use10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 May 2003Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMARION/NW93RD AVE.FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Fort Drane: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Fullers Earth, Montmorillonite, Limestone, General. 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
Franklin Industrial Minerals - Lowell MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Mid-Florida Mining - Emathla MineMontmorilloniteProducerMontmorillonite
R.O. Camp Clay PitFullers EarthProducer

Every working 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
Irvine1.3 miles15
Fairfield1.3 miles16
Heijahs Town (historical)1.5 miles16
Paynes Town (historical)2.3 miles17
Millwood2.5 miles17
Flemington2.8 miles15
Cara2.9 miles16
Orange Lake3.2 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 303914. 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.