Lawhons Mill, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the West Wakulla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32327. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Crawfordville West quadrangle.

Lawhons Mill within Wakulla County

Then and now

1940 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 48 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lawhons Mill, surveyed 1988

Topographic sheet of Lawhons Mill, surveyed 1940

Compare 1940 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1940 USGS Arran quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Arran quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Crawfordville West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

145 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Lawhons Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,031 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 10 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 burning	54
Natural	29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Recreation and ceremony	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	11
Arson/incendiarism	10
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Fireworks	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
8 September 1999	Natural	30 acres	National Forests in Florida	GRIMES BAY
7 September 1999	Natural	8.0 acres	National Forests in Florida	G F & A
7 September 1999	Natural	5.0 acres	National Forests in Florida	MILLGROVE
19 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	(65) DONALDSON-WILLIAMS
4 August 1995	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	National Forests in Florida	LONG BRANCH
30 August 1997	Natural	25 acres	National Forests in Florida	MIDNIGHT
3 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	National Forests in Florida	INDIAN CREEK SNAG
28 August 1997	Natural	4.0 acres	National Forests in Florida	FRANKLIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wakulla County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lawhons Mill: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Cannon Limestone - Moccasin Dip Mine	Limestone, General	Unknown	Limestone

Every working recorded in Wakulla 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Crawfordville	1.6 miles	14
Arran	1.8 miles	14
Mount Pleasant	2.0 miles	14
Tully	4.4 miles	14
Ivan	4.5 miles	14
Wakulla Gardens	5.1 miles	14
Shadeville	5.4 miles	14
Medart	5.8 miles	14

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 Q131548283

The 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 305935. 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.