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Hugh, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Middleburg-Clay Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32234. The Survey maps it on the Maxville quadrangle.

Hugh within Clay County

Then and now

1918 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 63 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hugh, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Hugh, surveyed 1918

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

224 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 224 fires within 5 miles of Hugh between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,665 acres in total. 64 started naturally. 22 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
Natural64
Equipment and vehicle use40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Debris and open burning26
Railroad operations and maintenance25
Arson/incendiarism22
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1
Smoking1

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
3 September 2014Natural17 acresFlorida Forest Service265TH ST (04)
12 September 2011Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTALLOW (10)
8 August 2014Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest Service301 (16)
8 August 2011Natural3.8 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWILKERSON ROAD (10)
6 August 2011Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceGALLBERRY (02)
6 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 August 2016Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePALMETTO ROAD (10)
3 August 2010Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service10 PALMETTO 2010-07-0439

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay 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 Hugh: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Titanium-Heavy Minerals, Titanium, Zirconium, REE, Aluminum. 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
Maxville TractTitanium, Zirconium, REE, AluminumProducerSurface
E.I. Dupont - Florida MineTitanium-Heavy MineralsProducerIlmenite, Leucoxene, Rutile, Zircon, Kyanite
E.I. Dupont - Maxville MineTitanium-Heavy MineralsProducerIlmenite, Leucoxene, Rutile, Zircon, Kyanite

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

3 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hugh in 3 storm reports between 2020 and 2025: 2 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
January 2025Heavy RainHugh-Site KFLJACKS3741 has had 4.51 inches of | rain since midnight.
June 2021Heavy RainHugh-A public weather station along War Admiral Road just north of Jennings State Forecast measured a daily storm total rainfall of 4.26 inches as of 4 pm. Most of this rainfall occurred after 2 pm.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindHugh-Numerous trees were blown down near the intersection of Highways 301 and 218. The time of damage was estimated by radar.

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Highland3.7 miles15
Clay Hill6.0 miles21
Middleburg11.3 miles21
Rattlesnake Bend11.8 miles21
Kingsley12.8 miles13
Rideout13.0 miles21
Kingsley Beach13.0 miles13
Ridgewood13.3 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295369. 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.