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Johnstown, Florida

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Raiford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32054. The Survey maps it on the Lake Butler quadrangle.

Johnstown within Union 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 Johnstown, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Johnstown, surveyed 1954

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

203 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 203 fires within 5 miles of Johnstown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,639 acres in total. 31 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
Railroad operations and maintenance38
Equipment and vehicle use38
Debris and open burning35
Natural31
Arson/incendiarism22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony3
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
4 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest Service186TH PLACE (63)
26 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSR 100 (63)
9 August 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceANDERSON RD (63)
9 August 2006Natural7.0 acresFlorida Forest Service03-63- 237 FIRE -1250
6 August 2007Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service03-63-SINCLAIR BRYANT RD FIRE
28 August 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 August 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Johnstown in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2026: 6 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
March 2026Thunderstorm WindJohnstown$1,000Trees were reported down across NE CR 238 and NE 149th St. Time was estimated by radar.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindJohnstown$200Trees and power lines were blown down. The cost of damage was unknown but it was estimated for inclusion of the event in Storm Data.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindJohnstown-A tree was blown down over State Road 100 West near the county line.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindJohnstown-The county central dispatch reported a tree was blown down and blocking both lanes of SE County Road 237.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindJohnstown-Law Enforcement reported one large tree down on state road 121 at Johnstown.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindJohnstown-Numerous trees were blown down along State Road 100 east of Lake Butler.

Every storm recorded in Union 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
Raiford2.3 miles13
Lake Butler3.9 miles9
Ellerbee5.5 miles13
Danville6.0 miles9
Cliftonville6.4 miles8
Guilford7.5 miles8
Brown8.9 miles8
Dukes9.0 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 300830. 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.