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Montbrook, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Williston-Bronson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32696. The Survey maps it on the Morriston quadrangle.

Montbrook within Levy County

Then and now

1895 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Montbrook, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Montbrook, surveyed 1895

Compare 1895 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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

189 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 189 fires within 5 miles of Montbrook between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,327 acres in total. 20 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
Railroad operations and maintenance54
Debris and open burning51
Equipment and vehicle use24
Natural20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking4
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
4 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 September 1997Natural7.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2006Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceLEVY/THE WIRE FIRE
8 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceNE 38TH PL (38)
3 August 1992Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 August 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 August 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 July 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2011-08-0727(38)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Levy County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Montbrook: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Williston PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Levy 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
Morriston3.2 miles16
Williston4.2 miles15
Williston Highlands4.9 miles11
Hodgson5.3 miles15
Raleigh7.9 miles15
Beetree Ford12.4 miles11
Bronson13.1 miles10
Merediths13.2 miles10

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 Q122557320The 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 287075. 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.