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Kent Mill, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Alford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32420. It stands on Cypress Creek. The Survey maps it on the Alford quadrangle.

Kent Mill within Jackson County

Then and now

1952 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 42 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kent Mill, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Kent Mill, surveyed 1952

Compare 1952 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

177 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 177 fires within 5 miles of Kent Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,111 acres in total. 6 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 burning67
Railroad operations and maintenance35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Smoking16
Equipment and vehicle use12
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Natural6
Other causes5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism3

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
6 September 2014Other causesunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHIGHLAND (32)
28 September 2019Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceROOKS ROAD (67)
27 September 2007Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service67/ARCHIE SAPP RD-0969
23 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 September 1997Smokingunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance8.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 August 2014Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCOMPASS LAKE (32)
28 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceROLAND ROAD (67)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Kent Mill: 7 unknowns, 5 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand, Kaolin. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Jackson 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
Round Lake2.4 miles15
Alford2.5 miles15
Steele City4.3 miles15
Compass Lake5.6 miles15
Kynesville5.7 miles12
Cottondale9.2 miles14
Richter Crossroads12.2 miles14
Marianna12.9 miles14

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 Q122557768The 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 294824. 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.