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Live Oak, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Caryville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32462. It stands on Mill Branch. The Survey maps it on the Millers Ferry quadrangle.

Live Oak within Washington County

Then and now

1949 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 39 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Live Oak, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Live Oak, surveyed 1949

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Live Oak between 1992 and 2020, burning about 852 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 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
Equipment and vehicle use25
Debris and open burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Railroad operations and maintenance14
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural5
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
15 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceICE TEA RD (67)
28 July 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresFlorida Forest Service67/WARD PLACE-0472
2 July 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 July 2000Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 June 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest Service67/GALLOWAY-0668
27 June 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 June 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Live Oak: 2 prospects, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Spears Camp Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Live Oak in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2026: 2 heavy rain, 1 flood, 1 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
March 2026Thunderstorm WindLive Oak-A tree was blown down on a power line at Amanda Way and River Road.
April 2016FloodLive Oak-Scattered pockets of flooding resulted from a build-up of moderate to heavy rainfall from late March through early April. Some roads were closed and included but may not be limited to the south end of Summerhouse Rd, Island Ave from Summerhouse to Treasure Terrace, Bream Blvd, Odom Rd off Highway 90, and Old Bonifay Rd at Holmes/Washington County line. This information was posted on the Washington County Emergency Management facebook page.
March 2012Heavy RainLive Oak-A 24 hour total of 6.14 inches was measured by FL-WS-1.
December 2011Heavy RainLive Oak-CoCoRaHS observer FL-WS-1 measured 4.20 inches of rain from approximately 9 pm on December 20th to 7:18 am on December 21st. The observer reported considerable yard flooding.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Millers Ferry1.2 miles13
New Hope3.0 miles13
Bunker Donation3.3 miles13
Coosada Old Town (historical)4.2 miles15
Norum5.8 miles13
Hinsons Crossroads6.3 miles13
Holmes Valley6.5 miles14
Red Head6.5 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295411. 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.

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.