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McDavid, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Century census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32568. It stands on Canoe Creek. The Survey maps it on the McDavid quadrangle. It stands 39 feet above sea level.

McDavid within Escambia County

Then and now

1941 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 53 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of McDavid, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of McDavid, surveyed 1941

Compare 1941 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

98 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of McDavid between 1992 and 2020, burning about 407 acres in total. 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use41
Debris and open burning16
Railroad operations and maintenance14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Smoking5
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony4

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
28 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMALONE FIRE - 1138
21 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined37 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCOON HILL FIRE-1133
25 August 2000Natural8.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 August 2007Natural5.5 acresFlorida Forest Service17-ROACH RD FIRE-1405
21 August 2006Smoking1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceROACH FIRE-1490
20 August 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresFlorida Forest Service17 LAMBERT BRIDGE RD FIRE-1392
17 July 2000Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Escambia County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of McDavid: 3 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand. 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
Bluff Springs MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pace Sand and Gravel - Bluff Springs MineSandUnknown
Mcmillian Mill Company 2 PitClayPast Producer
Mcmillian Mill Company 3 PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Escambia County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McDavid in 1 storm report in 1995: 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
July 1995Thunderstorm WindMcDavid$1,000Several trees were blown down along County Road 164 near Pine Barren Creek in the north part of the county.

Every storm recorded in Escambia 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
Bogia1.7 miles15
Bluff Springs5.0 miles12
Pine Barren6.2 miles15
Oak Grove6.4 miles12
Byrneville6.9 miles12
Barth7.2 miles15
Century8.0 miles12
Oyster Lodge8.4 miles15

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.

Wikipedia article on McDavidAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6800845The 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 286601. 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.