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Fort Gadsden, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Eastpoint census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32328. It stands on South Prong Fort Godsden Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Gadsden quadrangle.

Fort Gadsden within Franklin County

Then and now

1945 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 43 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 Gadsden, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Fort Gadsden, surveyed 1945

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

61 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Fort Gadsden between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,142 acres in total. 31 started naturally. 8 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
Natural31
Arson/incendiarism8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
5 September 2014Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceRING (19-5)
5 September 2014Natural2.0 acresNational Forests in FloridaFORT GADSDEN CREEK
9 August 2000Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresNational Forests in FloridaJUNIPER
31 August 2007Natural45 acresNational Forests in FloridaSAPP ROAD
30 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined82 acresNational Forests in Florida135-A
28 August 2008Natural31 acresNational Forests in FloridaSMITH CREEK RD
3 July 2019Natural8.5 acresNational Forests in FloridaJUNIPER COVE
2 July 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(19)BUCK SIDING FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Gadsden in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2015Thunderstorm WindFort Gadsden-A tree was blown down on Highway 65 in Franklin county near the Liberty County border.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Brickyard3.9 miles15
Beverly4.5 miles16
Hays Place5.5 miles16
Achackwaithle (historical)6.7 miles16
Creels7.5 miles16
High Bluff10.5 miles17
Bay City11.3 miles16
Franklin12.0 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 305693. 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.