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Fort White, Florida

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fort White census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32038. The Survey maps it on the Fort White quadrangle. 618 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 69 feet above sea level.

Fort White within Columbia County

Then and now

1954 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 27 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 White, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Fort White, surveyed 1954

On record in Fort White

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Fort White grew from 567 to 618 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010567
2020618+51 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

189 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 189 fires within 5 miles of Fort White between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,550 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 6 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 burning67
Railroad operations and maintenance46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Equipment and vehicle use15
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Smoking4
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1

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
24 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHILLIARD LN(12)
17 August 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWASHINGTON ST (12)
1 August 1999Natural4.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 July 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSANDERS WAY (12)
22 July 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMILL (12)
15 July 2000Debris and open burning10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 June 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceELIM CHURCH ROAD (12)
3 June 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort White in 1 storm report in 1995: 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
August 1995Thunderstorm WindFort White$500Large trees blown down.

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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
Woftoka (historical)2.8 miles10
Hollingsworth Bluff4.0 miles10
Mikesville6.1 miles10
Ellisville8.3 miles9
Mason10.1 miles9
Columbia10.4 miles8
Myrtis11.5 miles9
Bass12.8 miles8

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 WhiteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1004724The 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 282713. 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.