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Holland Crossroads, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Esto-Noma census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32425. It lies near Taylor Hill. The Survey maps it on the Esto quadrangle.

Holland Crossroads within Holmes County

Then and now

1950 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 38 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Holland Crossroads, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Holland Crossroads, surveyed 1950

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

137 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Holland Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 807 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 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 maintenance41
Debris and open burning36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use15
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural2
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 September 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceTJ MITCHELL (30)
25 September 2019Other causes1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceST MARKS ST (30)
25 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2019Debris and open burning1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHWY 160 (30)
1 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 August 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 August 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Holmes County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Holland Crossroads: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Unnamed Clay DepositClayOccurrence
Unnamed Clay DepositsClayProspect

Every working recorded in Holmes County

Storms near this place

8 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holland Crossroads in 8 storm reports between 2014 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 1 flash 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
November 2015FloodHolland Crossroads$50,000Spring Valley Road was closed due to flooding.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindHolland Crossroads$2,000Trees and power lines were down at 1461 Gavin Road.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindHolland Crossroads$2,000A power line was blown down in northeast Holmes county not far from Esto.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindHolland Crossroads-Trees were blown down on Highway 79 South near Highway 2.
September 2024Flash FloodHolland Crossroads-Gavin Road was flooded and closed.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindHolland Crossroads-Numerous trees and power lines were blown down across northeast Holmes county. SR-2 was closed due to downed lines.
December 2016FloodHolland Crossroads-Spring Valley Road was flooded and closed at the bridge due to a long duration of moderate to heavy rainfall.
April 2014FloodHolland Crossroads-Spring Valley Road was closed near Wrights Creek.

Every storm recorded in Holmes 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
Esto1.5 miles14
Noma Junction1.6 miles15
Noma1.9 miles15
Ards Crossroads2.5 miles14
Wynnlum3.0 miles15
Underwood Crossing3.4 miles15
Tendil Crossing3.5 miles15
Eleanor4.9 miles15

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 Q122550933The 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 295352. 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.