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Millwood, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Reddick-McIntosh census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32686. The Survey maps it on the McIntosh quadrangle.

Millwood within Marion County

Then and now

1893 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Millwood, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Millwood, surveyed 1893

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Millwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 292 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning29
Railroad operations and maintenance22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
20 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2003-08-1094
3 July 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service830
21 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceEAGLEPERCH(1)
22 June 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMARION/WRONG NUMBER FIRE
7 May 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 May 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 May 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMARION/441 FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Millwood: 4 producers, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Fullers Earth, Montmorillonite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Lowell QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mid-Florida Mining - Emathla MineMontmorilloniteProducerMontmorillonite
R.O. Camp Clay PitFullers EarthProducer
Franklin Industrial Minerals - Lowell MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Southern Materials Corp.Limestone, GeneralUnknownLimestone

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Millwood in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2017: 2 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 2017Thunderstorm WindMillwood-Power lines were blown down on NW 155th Street. The time of damage was based on radar.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindMillwood-Wind damage occurred between Citra and Reddick. There was a mobile home with a roof peeled back and minor damage to several other mobile homes in the area. Trees were down as well.

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Reddick1.1 miles16
Fort Drane2.5 miles15
Fairfield2.7 miles16
Paynes Town (historical)2.9 miles17
Irvine3.0 miles15
Orange Lake3.0 miles17
Heijahs Town (historical)3.4 miles16
Lowell3.6 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 303905. 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.