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Lanark Village, Florida

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Carrabelle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32323. The Survey maps it on the McIntyre quadrangle. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Lanark Village within Franklin County

Then and now

1945 to 1988

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 Lanark Village, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Lanark Village, surveyed 1945

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 20 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

107 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Lanark Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,370 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Railroad operations and maintenance20
Debris and open burning19
Equipment and vehicle use13
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Natural8
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Other causes2
Smoking1

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
28 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(19) SANBORN ROAD FIRE
28 August 2015Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceDUCK LAKE (19)
26 August 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 July 1992Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 July 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 July 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service13TH ST (19-6)
29 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(19) JATTON FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

6 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lanark Village in 6 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 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
January 2024Thunderstorm WindLanark Village$3,000Strong winds below debris into power lines, resulting in a power outage to 211 customers in Lanark Village.
February 2007Thunderstorm WindLanark Village$3,000The Franklin County EMA reported numerous downed power lines.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindLanark Village-An Ambient weather station measured a wind gust of 64 mph.
September 2024Flash FloodLanark Village-Flooded roadways were reported in the area along Highway 67 north of Carrabelle.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindLanark Village-A tree was blown down across Highway 98.
February 2016Thunderstorm WindLanark Village-Indiana Street, Elder Stree, and Carl King Street in Lanark Village were closed due to downed trees.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Big Blackjack Landing2.4 miles20
Pine Log3.8 miles20
Carrabelle4.2 miles20
Yent Place5.7 miles20
Carrabelle Beach5.9 miles20
Carrabelle Lighthouse6.8 miles20
McIntyre7.7 miles20
Saint Teresa8.2 miles17

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.

Wikipedia article on Lanark VillageAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6482925The 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 305927. 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.