Howell Place, Florida

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Perry South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32348. The Survey maps it on the Keaton Beach quadrangle.

Howell Place within Taylor County

Then and now

1954 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 24 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Howell Place, surveyed 1978

Topographic sheet of Howell Place, 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.

1954 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Keaton Beach quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Cross City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

61 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Howell Place between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,060 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 14 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	17
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Arson/incendiarism	14
Debris and open burning	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Other causes	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
12 September 2013	Natural	14 acres	Florida Forest Service	CC GRADE (62)
11 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	62 - BARE FOOT FIRE - 0213
9 August 2014	Natural	20 acres	Florida Forest Service	SALEM TOWER GRADE (62)
23 August 1993	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
19 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
3 July 2020	Natural	7.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	POLITIC ROAD (62)
20 July 2007	Natural	32 acres	Florida Forest Service	62-HAIRY FIRE-0419

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taylor County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Howell Place in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2024: 1 tornado, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2024	Flash Flood	Howell Place	-	Beach Road was reported to be flooded.
September 2016	Tornado (EF0)	Howell Place	-	The media reported on twitter that a Taylor county deputy reported a tornado near Steinhatchee with no damage.

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Fish Creek	3.5 miles	10
Dallus Creek Landing	3.7 miles	11
Keaton Beach	5.9 miles	10
Dekle Beach	8.0 miles	10
Salem	9.4 miles	10
Steinhatchee	9.4 miles	11
Tennille	9.7 miles	10
Clara	10.1 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295362. 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.

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.