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Iddo, Florida

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Perry North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32331. The Survey maps it on the Shady Grove quadrangle.

Iddo within Taylor County

Then and now

1954 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 25 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Iddo, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Iddo, 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.

Fires near this place

127 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Iddo between 1992 and 2019, burning about 439 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 13 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
Equipment and vehicle use60
Debris and open burning26
Arson/incendiarism13
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
27 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHIGHWAY 19 NORTH (62)
9 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest Service40- SEBER FIRE #0461
25 August 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 August 2014Debris and open burning15 acresFlorida Forest ServiceALTON WENTWORTH RD #2 (62)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taylor 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 Iddo: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Water, Free, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Magnesite, Uranium, Iron. 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
Taylor County Deposit #1Phosphorus-Phosphates, Water, Free, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Magnesite, Uranium, IronOccurrence1967

Every working recorded in Taylor County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Iddo in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2023: 2 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
April 2023Thunderstorm WindIddo-Power lines were blown down along Highway 19 in northern Taylor County.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindIddo-A tree was blown down onto the southbound lane of Highway 27 near the rest area.

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Eridu2.0 miles10
Shady Grove5.0 miles10
Covington5.6 miles10
Secotan8.5 miles10
Boyd8.8 miles8
Cabbage Grove9.2 miles9
Waylonzo11.3 miles9
Roach11.5 miles10

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 IddoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54322311The 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 294810. 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.