Macon, Florida

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Northwest Leon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32312. The Survey maps it on the Tallahassee quadrangle.

Macon within Leon County

Then and now

1940 to 1999

The same ground, surveyed 59 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Macon, surveyed 1999

Topographic sheet of Macon, surveyed 1940

Compare 1940 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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 Tallahassee quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1942 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1979 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1999 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Macon between 1992 and 2018, burning about 358 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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 maintenance	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Debris and open burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
7 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	GARDNER LANDING (37)
6 July 2006	Natural	8.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	(37) MILLERS LANDING FIRE
3 July 2002	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
15 July 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
5 May 2000	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
24 May 1992	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
18 May 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	(37) OXBOTTOM FIRE
22 April 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	(37) MAYLOR RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Leon 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
El Destinado	0.8 miles	13
Bridle Path Acres	1.3 miles	13
Oak Knoll Estates	2.1 miles	13
Zion Hill	2.5 miles	19
Bellwood Estates	2.7 miles	13
Saint Peter	2.7 miles	15
Harbinwood Estates	3.3 miles	13
Tallahassee	3.9 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 307815. 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.