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Hampton Springs, Florida

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Perry North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32347. It stands on Rocky Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hampton Springs quadrangle.

Hampton Springs within Taylor County

Then and now

1954 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 25 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hampton Springs, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Hampton Springs, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

289 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 289 fires within 5 miles of Hampton Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 739 acres in total. 57 started naturally. 18 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 burning68
Natural57
Equipment and vehicle use41
Railroad operations and maintenance32
Misuse of fire by a minor30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Arson/incendiarism18
Smoking9
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Other causes4
Recreation and ceremony2

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 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWOODS CREEK PP (62)
24 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHWY 98 FIRE (62)
23 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHOMER J. SMITH(62)
20 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceKINSEY ROAD (62)
2 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2015Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCHAIR (62)
8 August 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service62 - EDWARDS FIRE #330

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taylor 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 Hampton Springs: 1 plant. 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
Perry MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant

Every working recorded in Taylor County

Storms near this place

8 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hampton Springs in 8 storm reports between 2012 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
April 2020Thunderstorm WindHampton Springs$3,000Trees were blown down onto power lines and resulted in a power outage to 39 customers.
February 2015Thunderstorm WindHampton Springs$2,000A tree was blown down onto power lines on Highway 98 West.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindHampton Springs$500One tree was blown down on Hampton Springs Road with no other reports of trees down or damage in the area.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindHampton Springs-A tree was blown down onto Courtney Grade Road.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindHampton Springs-A tree was blown down along Puckett Road.
August 2018FloodHampton Springs-Video of standing water on Courtney Grade Road was posted to the Taylor County EM facebook page. Radar estimates around 3.5 inches of rain in the previous 24 hours across the area. This rain on top of saturated soils resulted in minor flooding across the area in the form of areas of standing water.
February 2017Thunderstorm WindHampton Springs-A tree was blown down in the Hampton Springs area.
January 2016Thunderstorm WindHampton Springs-A tree was blown down at Courtney Grade Road near Puckett Road.

Every storm recorded in Taylor 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
Roach4.1 miles10
Perry4.5 miles9
Bucell Junction5.4 miles9
Secotan6.4 miles10
Foley6.7 miles9
Boyd7.6 miles8
Pinland8.2 miles9
Fenholloway8.4 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 Hampton SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122565579The 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 283676. 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.