BlockKinard, Florida
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the West Calhoun census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32449. It stands on Poplar Branch. The Survey maps it on the Broad Branch quadrangle.
Then and now
1945 to 1988The same ground, surveyed 43 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Compare 1945 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1945 USGS Broad Branch quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1945 USGS Broad Branch quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Panama City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Broad Branch quadrangle1:24000
- 1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
71 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Kinard between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,783 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 27 |
| Debris and open burning | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 07/LULA CAMP RD-0625 |
| 21 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 988 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 29 August 1998 | Debris and open burning | 18 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 8 July 2000 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 8 July 1992 | Natural | 60 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 8 July 1992 | Natural | 150 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 30 July 1996 | Natural | 20 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 29 July 1998 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kinard in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2017: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 1997 | Tornado (F1) | Kinard | $100,000 | Small F1 tornado destroyed storage sheds, mobile home and pickup truck along Florida Highway 73. One 24" diameter tree uprooted. |
| March 2001 | Tornado (F2) | Kinard | $50,000 | An F2 tornado touched down just south of Kinard on the west side of SW J.A. Daniels Road. It damaged two sheds and two barns. It tracked northeast and crossed State Road 73, two-tenths of a mile south of Mark Barbee Lane, and uprooted numerous trees. From Mark Barbee Lane, the tornado continued its northeast track and severely damaged two vacant structures on SW Clayton Shiver Road, and then dissipated. Damage surveyed by the NWS Tallahassee WCM and reported by the Calhoun County EMA. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinard | $200 | A few trees down at the intersection of County Road 392 and State Road 73. Limbs were blown off tree tops. Reported by the Calhoun County EMA. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinard | - | Several large trees were blown down on Highway 73 south of the Juniper Creek Bridge. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinard | - | Numerous trees were blown down across the central and western portions of Calhoun 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Broad Branch | 2.7 miles | 14 | |
| Frink | 6.6 miles | 14 | |
| Iolee (historical) | 7.0 miles | 14 | |
| Scotts Ferry | 7.1 miles | 14 | |
| Fisher Corner | 7.4 miles | 14 | |
| Gaskins | 7.5 miles | 14 | |
| Abe Springs | 8.5 miles | 14 | |
| Marysville | 8.8 miles | 15 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295392. 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.