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Green Point, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Eastpoint census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32328. It stands on Porters Bar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Green Point quadrangle.

Green Point within Franklin County

Then and now

1944 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 44 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Green Point, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Green Point, surveyed 1944

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

132 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Green Point between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,444 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 9 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 use35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Natural19
Debris and open burning18
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Arson/incendiarism9
Railroad operations and maintenance6
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 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceFORT (19-5)
6 September 1992Natural12 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1994Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2019Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSAGO (19-5)
18 September 2019Natural7.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSEAHAWK FIRE-(19)-0553
14 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSEAHAWK FIRE-(19)-0436
13 September 1993Debris and open burning5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Green Point: 3 unknowns. 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
Dot Tallahassee - 110-Acre MineSandUnknown
Dot Tallahassee - C.C. Land MineSandUnknown
Dot Tallahassee - Yent Bayou MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

4 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Green Point in 4 storm reports between 2016 and 2026: 4 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
January 2017Thunderstorm WindGreen Point$3,000Trees and power lines were blown down near Highway 65 and Highway 98.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindGreen Point$2,000Shingles were blown off as reported through mPING.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindGreen Point$2,000A power line was blown down at Highway 65 and Teresa Ave.
December 2023Thunderstorm WindGreen Point-A Tempest weather station gusted to 61 mph.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Eastpoint2.9 miles17
Magnolia Bluffs3.9 miles17
High Bluff4.3 miles17
Creels6.0 miles16
Saint George Island7.3 miles17
Apalachicola8.3 miles17
Hays Place8.3 miles16
Carrabelle Lighthouse8.4 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 283398. 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.