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Georgiana, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Merritt Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32952. It lies near Honeymoon Hill. The Survey maps it on the Cocoa quadrangle.

Georgiana within Brevard County

Then and now

1949 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 32 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Georgiana, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Georgiana, surveyed 1949

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

95 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Georgiana between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,032 acres in total. 21 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
Equipment and vehicle use30
Natural21
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning2

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
8 September 1996Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1998Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHERON'S (05)
1 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2009Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHOPE CHURCH (5)
22 August 1993Natural30 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 August 1993Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brevard 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 Georgiana: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Rockledge MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Brevard County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Georgiana in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2019: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
January 2008Thunderstorm WindGeorgiana$2,000A few trees were blown down by morning thunderstorms near Merritt Island.
March 2019HailGeorgiana-The public reported hail up to ping pong ball size (1.5 inch diameter), with hail lasting around 5 minutes near the 4000 block of South Tropical Trail on Merritt Island. Pool screen enclosures were damaged and leaves were shredded from trees.

Every storm recorded in Brevard 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
Rockwell0.4 miles12
Bonaventure1.4 miles12
Lotus3.0 miles15
Footman3.0 miles12
Pineda3.5 miles15
South Cocoa Beach3.7 miles12
Angel City3.9 miles12
Cocoa Beach4.2 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 283038. 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.

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.