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Hornsville, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Greenwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32423. The Survey maps it on the Bascom quadrangle.

Hornsville within Jackson County

Then and now

1952 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 42 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hornsville, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Hornsville, surveyed 1952

Compare 1952 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

126 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Hornsville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 559 acres in total. 5 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
Debris and open burning70
Equipment and vehicle use17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking5
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2002Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020SEMINOLE004
30 September 1993Debris and open burning20 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLEO ROAD (32)
22 September 2016Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceKIRKLAND RD (32)
17 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceKIRKLAND ROAD (32)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson 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 Hornsville: 1 unknown. 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
Jackson Co. Bd of Co. Comm. - Concord MineClayUnknownSand

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

7 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hornsville in 7 storm reports between 2016 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2016Thunderstorm WindHornsville$3,000Large trees and two power poles were blown down in northeast Jackson county. One location was along Timberlane Road and Highway 2.
January 2024Thunderstorm WindHornsville-A tree was blown down along Highway 2 near Concord Road.
January 2024Thunderstorm WindHornsville-A large oak tree blew down across Timberlane Road near Line Road.
March 2022Flash FloodHornsville-Timberlane Road near Neals Landing Road was flooded and closed.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindHornsville-A tree was blown down near Highway 2 and Timberlane Road.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindHornsville-A tree was blown down on Timberlane Road near the Alabama border.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindHornsville-A tree was blown down near the intersection of Highway 2 and County Road 164.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Buena Vista4.6 miles13
Lovedale4.7 miles13
Parramore4.8 miles13
Tocktoethla (historical)5.5 miles13
Haynes5.6 miles13
Bascom6.2 miles13
Two Egg7.2 miles13
Dellwood8.5 miles13

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 Q122590148The 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 295359. 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.