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Jena, Florida

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Cross City South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32359. It stands on Sand Hill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jena quadrangle. It stands 13 feet above sea level.

Jena within Dixie 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 Jena, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Jena, 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

293 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 293 fires within 5 miles of Jena between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,768 acres in total. 34 started naturally. 65 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 use111
Arson/incendiarism65
Natural34
Debris and open burning33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony4
Other causes3
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
7 September 1999Natural15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2014Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceDIXIE CAMP MAINLINE #2 (15)
24 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceCEDAR (15)
19 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service391 AVE (15)
15 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceROCKY CREEK (15)
14 September 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMADDIE'S MARKET (62)
14 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 September 1999Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dixie 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 Jena: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dixie County

Storms near this place

9 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jena in 9 storm reports between 2015 and 2024: 8 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
July 2015Thunderstorm WindJena$5,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down in Dixie county.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindJena$2,000A downed power line caught a tree on fire.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindJena$2,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
February 2015Thunderstorm WindJena$2,000Trees were blown down in the Jena area.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindJena-A Davis Weather station gusted to 60 mph.
June 2023Flash FloodJena-Significant road flooding was reported via mPing.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindJena-A tree was blown down onto Highway 51.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindJena-Several trees were blown down.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindJena-A tree was blown down in the Jena area.

Every storm recorded in Dixie 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
Stewart City1.0 miles11
Broscan1.9 miles10
Jonesboro5.1 miles10
Hines8.8 miles10
Horseshoe11.7 miles11
Shamrock12.0 miles10
Cross City13.1 miles10
Eugene15.4 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 JenaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q25021516The 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 294816. 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.