Fort Gates, Florida

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Crescent City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32134. It stands on Beecher Run. The Survey maps it on the Welaka quadrangle.

Fort Gates within Putnam County

Then and now

1954 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 40 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 Gates, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Fort Gates, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1954 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Welaka quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1978 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1994 USGS Welaka quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

223 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 223 fires within 5 miles of Fort Gates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,036 acres in total. 83 started naturally. 21 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
Natural	83
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50
Debris and open burning	34
Arson/incendiarism	21
Power generation/transmission/distribution	13
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Recreation and ceremony	5
Other causes	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
5 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	LAKE WAY (54)
30 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	National Forests in Florida	OKLAWAHA
2 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	National Forests in Florida	RICHARD 42
16 September 2010	Natural	1.4 acres	National Forests in Florida	FT. GATES 23
15 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	National Forests in Florida	BLUE CRAB
12 September 2010	Natural	1,097 acres	National Forests in Florida	FT GATES 22
9 August 2018	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	FERNCREEK 53 (54)
8 August 1992	Natural	under an acre	National Forests in Florida	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Putnam 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Fruitland	1.0 miles	11
Johns Ferry	1.0 miles	11
Georgetown	2.1 miles	11
Norwalk	3.3 miles	11
Welaka	4.3 miles	11
Huntington	5.8 miles	10
Lake Como	6.4 miles	10
Crescent City Station	6.6 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 305695. 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.