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Huntington, Florida

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Crescent City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32112. The Survey maps it on the Crescent City quadrangle.

Huntington within Putnam County

Then and now

1954 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 40 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Huntington, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Huntington, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

178 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Huntington between 2001 and 2020, burning about 5,153 acres in total. 39 started naturally. 19 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 burning43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Natural39
Arson/incendiarism19
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Other causes4
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2

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
28 September 2014Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceJUMPING GULLY(54)
17 September 2013Other causesunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMARLIN (54)
8 August 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMC GRADY (54)
6 August 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePUTNAM/LINE DOWN FIRE
22 August 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePLANTATION DR (54)
19 August 2005Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service2005-08-0500/PUTNAM
16 August 2007Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresFlorida Forest ServicePUTNAM/NILES FIRE
1 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2004-08-0696

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Putnam 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 Huntington: 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
Burt Burden - Burden MineClayUnknown

Every working recorded in Putnam County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Huntington in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2011: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
August 2011Thunderstorm WindHuntington-Three large trees were blown down at Huninton Road at the railroad tracks. The Amtrack train had to be stopped along the tracks because debris was still being cleared about an hour after the event happened.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindHuntington-Trees were blown down at Oleander Street and Lake Margaret Blvd.
July 2008HailHuntington-Penny size hail was observed at the intersection of State Road 100 and East End Road.

Every storm recorded in Putnam 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
Mount Royal1.8 miles10
Crescent City Station2.0 miles10
Crescent City2.3 miles10
Denver2.8 miles10
Lake Como3.2 miles10
Hammond4.4 miles10
Shirley Place4.4 miles10
Pomona Park4.6 miles16

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.

Wikipedia article on HuntingtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14685939The 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 294809. 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.