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Hatchbend, Florida

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Mayo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32008. The Survey maps it on the Hatchbend quadrangle.

Hatchbend within Lafayette 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 Hatchbend, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Hatchbend, surveyed 1954

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

93 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Hatchbend between 1992 and 2019, burning about 302 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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 burning28
Railroad operations and maintenance20
Equipment and vehicle use15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism5
Other causes3
Natural2

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
25 September 2019Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceNW 101ST(21)
19 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlorida Forest Service34 - CANOE FIRE #0474
3 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceNORTH CO RD 349 (15)
27 August 1994Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCUT OVER CORN FIELD (34)
3 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service73RD TRAIL(21)
2 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service55TH AVE
29 June 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceNW 32ND PL (38)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lafayette 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 Hatchbend: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Philman - Philman's PitLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Dempseys Farm QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lafayette County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hatchbend in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 1998Thunderstorm WindHatchbend$1,000Trees down in Hatchbend. One large tree down in fornt of a residence on Florida Highway 349.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindHatchbend-A tree was blown down onto County Road 349.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindHatchbend-Several trees were blown down.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindHatchbend-A tree was blown down on Highway 349.
May 2012Heavy RainHatchbend-A storm total of 5.09 inches was measured through 5 am EDT at a private weather station just south of Hatchbend.

Every storm recorded in Lafayette 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
Grady7.4 miles10
Midway14.2 miles10
Alton18.4 miles8
San Pedro Junction19.4 miles8
Mayo19.7 miles8
Cooks Hammock19.8 miles10
Peterson23.1 miles8
Buckville27.8 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.

Wikidata item Q122541096The 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 294800. 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.