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Fort McCoy, Florida

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Fort McCoy-Anthony census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32134. The Survey maps it on the Fort McCoy quadrangle.

Fort McCoy within Marion County

Then and now

1954 to 1999

The same ground, surveyed 45 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 McCoy, surveyed 1999
Topographic sheet of Fort McCoy, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

On record in Fort McCoy

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

181 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 181 fires within 5 miles of Fort McCoy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,438 acres in total. 77 started naturally. 11 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
Natural77
Railroad operations and maintenance28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Debris and open burning22
Equipment and vehicle use14
Arson/incendiarism11
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
6 September 2006Natural20 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTEUTON CREEK FIRE/MARION
5 September 1997Natural75 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2013Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMILL POND(42)
4 September 2000Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMARION/EUREKA HYMIE
15 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMARION/SIX PINE FIRE
6 August 1994Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fort McCoy: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand. 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
John R. Dykes - Magnolia Bluff MineSandUnknown

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
Eureka3.3 miles10
Tobacco Patch Landing5.0 miles9
Burbank5.4 miles17
Bay Lake5.6 miles9
Cedar Creek7.2 miles10
Sparr7.9 miles17
Citra8.2 miles17
Point Pleasant8.4 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.

Wikipedia article on Fort McCoyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5471612The 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 305697. 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.