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Jennings, Florida

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Jennings census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32053. It stands on Turket Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jennings quadrangle. 749 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 141 feet above sea level.

Jennings within Hamilton County

Then and now

1954 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 27 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Jennings, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Jennings, surveyed 1954

On record in Jennings

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Jennings fell from 833 to 749 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000833
2010878+45 (+5%)
2020749-129 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

250 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 250 fires within 5 miles of Jennings between 1992 and 2020, burning about 883 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 17 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 burning105
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Equipment and vehicle use24
Railroad operations and maintenance23
Natural21
Arson/incendiarism17
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking3
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
4 September 1999Debris and open burning133 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCR 141 NW (24-04)
21 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceDOLLAR STORE (24-4)
2 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution31 acresFlorida Forest ServiceNW 27TH BLVD (24-4)
2 September 1995Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2003Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this place

41 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jennings in 41 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 25 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 6 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud. 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 1999Thunderstorm WindJennings$8,000Large trees and power lines were blown down. One vehicle damaged.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindJennings$4,000Numerous reports of large trees blown down. A mobile home was damaged.
February 1998Thunderstorm WindJennings$3,000Large tress and power lines were blown down.
March 2000Thunderstorm WindJennings$2,500Large trees and power lines were blown down.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindJennings$2,000Trees were blown down on NW 49th Avenue and on CR152 near NW 27th Blvd. The cost of damage was estimated.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindJennings$1,000Hamilton county 911 call center reported a tree was down blocking NW CR 141. Time was estimated by radar.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindJennings$1,000Large trees were blown down.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindJennings$1,000Large trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2023HailJennings-Ping pong ball size hail was observed along NW County Road 152.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindJennings-Two trees were blown down across 2 lanes of Interstate 75 at mile marker 467. The time of damage was based on radar imagery.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindJennings-Multiple trees were blown down that caused a power line to go down and create a small fire near the intersection of NW County Road 152 and NW 13th Drive. The trees covered the roads. The time of damage was based on radar.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindJennings-Numerous trees were blown down across western Hamilton County.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindJennings-A tree was blown down in Jennings. The time of damage was based on radar.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindJennings-A tree was blown down by winds along Hamilton Avenue in Jennings. The time of damage was based on radar.
February 2015Thunderstorm WindJennings-A tree was blown down along with large branches in Jennings.
July 2013Heavy RainJennings-Four hour rainfall total was 5.5 inches.
March 2013Thunderstorm WindJennings-Winds downed a tree south of Jennings along Highway 17.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindJennings-Trees were blown down along NW 66th Blvd.
December 2012Thunderstorm WindJennings-Trees were blown down along County Road 141.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindJennings-Wind damaged occurred to 4-5 homes and 2 business in Jennings. About 90 percent of the area was without power. The time of the event was based on radar.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindJennings-Trees and power lines were blown down in Jennings.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindJennings-The Hamilton County Road Department Road Superintendent reported widespread tree damage reports across the area. Trees were blown down across County Road 141, County Road 146, The Godwin Bridge Southeast at 95th Street and another tree was blown down across County Road 135.
April 2009FloodJennings-Law enforcement reported roads flooded and closed near County Road 143 near Jennings.
May 2008HailJennings-Penny size hail was reported by a postal carrier near the Florida-Georgia state line.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindJennings-Numerous trees down across Jennings caused power outages. A spotter reported multiple large branches broken off and outdoor furnishings blown across the yard.
February 2006Heavy RainJennings-3.6 inches of rain recorded between noon and 21:00 with 3 inches falling between 18:00-21:00 EST. Spotter reported extensive ponding on area roadways, drainage ditches overflowing and minor flooding of dirt secondary roads and farmland. Some erosion took place in drainage ditches and travel on dirt roads was difficult.
October 2006Heavy RainJennings-Trained spotter, with rain gage, reported 2.25 inches of rain with squal line passage.
March 2003Thunderstorm WindJennings-Trees blown down onto highway 141.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindJennings-Power lines down.
August 2006Heavy RainJennings-no account filed
June 2006Heavy RainJennings-no account filed
March 2005HailJennings-no account filed
March 2005HailJennings-no account filed
March 2005HailJennings-no account filed
April 2005Thunderstorm WindJennings-no account filed
June 2004HailJennings-no account filed
June 2004Funnel CloudJennings-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindJennings-no account filed
August 2004Heavy RainJennings-no account filed
March 2003HailJennings-no account filed
February 1998HailJennings-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hamilton 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
Alapaha (historical)2.6 miles8
Avoca4.2 miles8
Octahatchee5.2 miles7
West Lake7.0 miles8
Rawls7.4 miles8
Crossroads8.0 miles11
Bellville8.5 miles9
Bakers Mill8.6 miles8

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 JenningsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2092783The 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 284753. 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.