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Magnolia Bluffs, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Eastpoint census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32328. The Survey maps it on the Apalachicola quadrangle.

Magnolia Bluffs within Franklin County

Then and now

1943 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Magnolia Bluffs, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Magnolia Bluffs, surveyed 1943

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

110 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Magnolia Bluffs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,733 acres in total. 12 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
Equipment and vehicle use34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Debris and open burning16
Natural12
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony3
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
6 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceFORT (19-5)
5 September 1994Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2019Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSAGO (19-5)
13 September 1993Debris and open burning5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 September 1994Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTHE MARSH (19)--0495
5 August 1992Natural7.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin 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
Eastpoint1.1 miles17
Green Point3.9 miles17
Apalachicola4.5 miles17
Saint George Island5.4 miles17
Two Mile5.9 miles16
Creels6.0 miles16
Bay City6.6 miles16
Franklin6.8 miles16

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 Q122588975The 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 295788. 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.