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Lovedale, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Greenwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32443. The Survey maps it on the Bascom quadrangle.

Lovedale within Jackson County

Then and now

1952 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 42 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lovedale, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Lovedale, surveyed 1952

Compare 1952 against another survey:

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

115 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Lovedale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 579 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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 burning52
Railroad operations and maintenance30
Smoking9
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBLUE ARROW (32)
6 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1997Smokingunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSWEETPOND RD (32)
22 September 2016Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceKIRKLAND RD (32)
17 September 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHARTSFIELD ROAD (32)
17 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceKIRKLAND ROAD (32)
17 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lovedale: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand, Clay. 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
Jackson Co. Bd of Co. Comm. - Concord MineClayUnknownSand
S&W Fish Farm - Two Egg MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lovedale in 1 storm report in 2016: 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
June 2016Thunderstorm WindLovedale$3,000Large trees and two power poles were blown down in northeast Jackson county. One location was along Lovedale Road.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Buena Vista0.4 miles13
Two Egg2.6 miles13
Parramore2.7 miles13
Dellwood3.9 miles13
Tocktoethla (historical)4.1 miles13
Haynes4.6 miles13
Hornsville4.7 miles13
Bascom5.2 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295419. 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.