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Lansing, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Arcadia West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34266. It stands on McBride Branch. The Survey maps it on the Limestone quadrangle.

Lansing within DeSoto County

Then and now

1956 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 32 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lansing, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Lansing, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

228 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 228 fires within 5 miles of Lansing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,818 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 6 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 maintenance61
Debris and open burning45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Equipment and vehicle use26
Recreation and ceremony18
Natural18
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes2

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
19 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceFEEDBAG (14)
19 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service14-BULLDOG FIRE-0448
15 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service14-WINDY PINE FIRE-0439
30 August 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 August 1993Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 August 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 August 1993Natural80 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 July 1998Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeSoto County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lansing in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2016: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2016Thunderstorm WindLansing$100,000The DeSoto County Sheriff's Office reported numerous powerlines down in Arcadia along with moderate roof damage to 3 homes and minor damage to 17 homes.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindLansing$5,000Several trees were downed along Northwest Coker Street. Also, a large heavy brick was pushed several feet into a swimming pool, lawn furniture was destroyed, and an umbrella was snapped and blown away.

Every storm recorded in DeSoto 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
Belgium (historical)1.3 miles13
Cubitis2.6 miles13
Arcadia3.2 miles14
Tryon3.5 miles13
Brownville4.5 miles13
Pine Level5.5 miles14
Nocatee6.7 miles13
Joshua8.9 miles13

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 LansingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6487421The 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 295403. 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.