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Mikesville, Florida

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fort White census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32024. It stands on Hammock Branch. The Survey maps it on the Mikesville quadrangle. It stands 151 feet above sea level.

Mikesville within Columbia County

Then and now

1954 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 27 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mikesville, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Mikesville, surveyed 1954

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

202 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 202 fires within 5 miles of Mikesville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 996 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
Debris and open burning64
Railroad operations and maintenance51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Equipment and vehicle use16
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking3

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
24 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHILLIARD LN(12)
17 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSOUTHBOUND WRECK (12)
11 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 July 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 July 1993Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 July 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceO'LENO (12)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mikesville 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
May 1995Thunderstorm WindMikesville$150Several trees were blown down and numerous traffic accidents on Interstate 75.

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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
Ellisville4.0 miles9
Fort White6.1 miles10
Mason6.4 miles9
Woftoka (historical)6.8 miles10
Myrtis8.2 miles9
Hollingsworth Bluff9.2 miles10
Columbia10.1 miles8
Ebenezer10.4 miles9

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 MikesvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18155430The 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 294854. 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.

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.