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Koerber, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the DeFuniak Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32433. The Survey maps it on the De Funiak Springs East quadrangle.

Koerber within Walton County

Then and now

1935 to 1978

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Koerber, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Koerber, surveyed 1935

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

251 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 251 fires within 5 miles of Koerber between 1992 and 2020, burning about 991 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 17 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 maintenance62
Equipment and vehicle use47
Debris and open burning42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Misuse of fire by a minor22
Arson/incendiarism17
Smoking12
Natural11
Recreation and ceremony9
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1

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 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2010Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Service30/ALFORD RD-0568
23 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service66/HWY 183, NORTH-0962
23 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 September 1997Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walton County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Koerber: 3 prospects, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Kaolin, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand. 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
Dot Defuniak Springs - Argyle MineSandUnknown
Thompson David R ProspectKaolinOccurrence
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed Clay DepositClayProspect
Unnamed Clay DepositClayProspect
Unnamed Clay DepositClayProspect

Every working recorded in Walton 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
Walcan0.8 miles15
Argyle1.5 miles15
De Funiak Springs2.4 miles15
Dixon3.3 miles17
Center Ridge5.3 miles12
Union5.5 miles12
Douglass Crossroads5.7 miles15
Eucheeanna5.8 miles15

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 Q122552006The 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 285172. 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.