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Graham, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Hampton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32044. It stands on Sampson River. The Survey maps it on the Waldo quadrangle. It stands 141 feet above sea level.

Graham within Bradford County

Then and now

1941 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 50 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Graham, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Graham, surveyed 1941

Compare 1941 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

191 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 191 fires within 5 miles of Graham between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,135 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 37 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
Railroad operations and maintenance37
Debris and open burning37
Arson/incendiarism37
Natural28
Equipment and vehicle use23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Other causes3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking1

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 2006Natural60 acresFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA/LIL HOBO FIRE
5 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2007Natural50 acresFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA/TRAM RD FIRE
22 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceDEER FOOT TRAIL (04)
2 September 2006Natural19 acresFlorida Forest Service03-04-TORNADO FIRE-1334
18 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bradford 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 Graham: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Water, Free, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum. 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
Container CorporationPhosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Water, Free, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, AluminumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Bradford County

Storms near this place

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Graham in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2015: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
September 2015Thunderstorm WindGraham-Apparent Rear Flank downdraft contacted ground. damage for about 1 mile downstream with a 100 yard wide swath. most debris laid out in straight line path with some lighter porch materials blown to the south. Likely the lighter materials were caught in an eddy. Trees and power lines downed, some roof damage with an open shed-garage area blown over.
May 2013HailGraham-Quarter to half-dollar size hail was reported.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindGraham-Power lines and trees were blown down along County Road 235 and County Road 218, about 8 miles east of Brooker.
May 2013HailGraham-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bradford 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
Hampton Beach2.8 miles15
Clayno3.6 miles11
Sampson3.9 miles16
Hampton4.6 miles15
Brooker6.4 miles11
New River7.4 miles11
Theressa8.0 miles16
Starke8.2 miles17

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 GrahamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16891817The 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 283263. 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.