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Jumeau, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Inverness census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34436. The Survey maps it on the Nobleton quadrangle.

Jumeau within Citrus 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 Jumeau, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Jumeau, surveyed 1954

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

162 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 162 fires within 5 miles of Jumeau between 1992 and 2019, burning about 5,570 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 11 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 burning45
Railroad operations and maintenance37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use19
Natural14
Arson/incendiarism11
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
18 September 2001Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2006Natural7.5 acresFlorida Forest Service09/WINDROW FIRE/0856
28 August 1996Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 August 2000Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 August 2005Debris and open burning8.0 acresFlorida Forest Service60/PLANTATION FIRE 0592
21 August 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 August 1998Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Citrus County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Jumeau: 2 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fullers Earth. 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 Fullers Earth ProspectFullers EarthOccurrence
Unnamed Fullers Earth ProspectFullers EarthOccurrence
Storey Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Storey MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed Aggregate PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Citrus 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
Floral City1.5 miles14
Pineola3.2 miles14
Hooper4.4 miles14
Landrum4.8 miles25
Catawba4.9 miles15
Inverness7.5 miles24
Big Hammock (historical)9.3 miles25
Arlington10.2 miles24

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.

Wikidata item Q122560712The 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 301084. 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.