Hays Place, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Eastpoint census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32328. The Survey maps it on the Beverly quadrangle.

Hays Place within Franklin County

Then and now

1945 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 43 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hays Place, surveyed 1988

Topographic sheet of Hays Place, surveyed 1945

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

1945 USGS Beverly quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
1945 USGS Beverly quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS Apalachicola quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Apalachicola quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Apalachicola quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Apalachicola quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Apalachicola quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Carrabelle quadrangle1:100000, 4 printings
1981 USGS Beverly quadrangle1:24000
1988 USGS Apalachicola quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Hays Place between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,133 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 7 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
Natural	22
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Debris and open burning	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Arson/incendiarism	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Fireworks	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 1992	Natural	12 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
30 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	TOWER RD EQUIPMENT (19-5)
3 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	EAST BAY COMAND
27 September 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	TOWER RD (19) -0525
21 September 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	THIRD STREET FIRE
6 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	(19) SUZUKI FIRE
31 August 2007	Natural	45 acres	National Forests in Florida	SAPP ROAD
31 August 1998	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Beverly	1.5 miles	16
Creels	2.4 miles	16
Achackwaithle (historical)	3.9 miles	16
Fort Gadsden	5.5 miles	16
High Bluff	6.6 miles	17
Bay City	7.0 miles	16
Magnolia Bluffs	7.7 miles	17
Franklin	7.7 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295342. 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.