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Juniper, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Greensboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32351. It stands on Tallahassee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sycamore quadrangle.

Juniper within Gadsden County

Then and now

1954 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 40 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Juniper, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Juniper, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

136 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Juniper between 1992 and 2020, burning about 675 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 3 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 burning50
Railroad operations and maintenance33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use14
Natural8
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
5 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2019Debris and open burning1.7 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHUMPHREY RD**NOV** (20)-0585
19 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 August 2020Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceOAK TREE (20)-0415
8 July 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHALL LANE (20)
7 July 1998Equipment and vehicle use10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2019Natural75 acresFlorida Forest ServiceINDEPENDENCE (20)
3 July 2014Fireworks16 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWILL WHITE RD (20)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gadsden County

Storms near this place

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Juniper in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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
November 1997Thunderstorm WindJuniper$5,000Severe thunderstorm winds blew down trees and some power lines near the Liberty-Gadsden county line.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindJuniper$1,500A tree was blown down onto power lines on Telogia Creek Road. Monetary damage was estimated.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindJuniper$1,000A tree was blown down west of Greensboro. Monetary damage was estimated.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindJuniper-A tree was blown down on Telogia Creek Road.
March 2022Flash FloodJuniper-Water was over Tolar White Road.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindJuniper-A tree was blown down.
April 2009HailJuniper-Nickel size hail was reported south of Greensboro.

Every storm recorded in Gadsden 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
Greensboro1.9 miles14
Sawdust4.1 miles14
Sycamore4.9 miles14
Hardaway6.1 miles13
Douglas City6.9 miles14
Gretna7.1 miles14
Wetumpka8.0 miles12
Rosedale8.3 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295383. 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.