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Montivilla, Florida

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Monticello census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32344. It lies near Texas Hill. The Survey maps it on the Lake Miccosukee quadrangle.

Montivilla within Jefferson 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 Montivilla, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Montivilla, surveyed 1954

On record in Montivilla

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 5 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

115 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Montivilla between 1992 and 2020, burning about 454 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 burning38
Railroad operations and maintenance34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use15
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism1
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
7 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceN JEFF **NOV**(33)-0529
3 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 July 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(33) BRUSH FIRE
8 June 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 June 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 June 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(33) EAST GLEN RD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

4 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Montivilla in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2024: 2 flash flood, 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
April 2024Flash FloodMontivilla-New Monticello Road was closed from US-90 to West Lake Road due to flood erosion.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindMontivilla-A tree was blown down near Crooked Road near Monticello.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindMontivilla-A tree was blown down on New Monticello Road near Highway 90.
April 2014Flash FloodMontivilla-Flooding occurred on Highway 19 north of Monticello due to heavy rain in a short period of time.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Monticello1.0 miles7
Lois2.1 miles7
Casa Blanco2.2 miles7
Drifton3.6 miles9
Alma4.5 miles7
Hatchcakamocha (historical)5.6 miles9
Festus5.7 miles7
Jarrett5.8 miles7

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 Q122548236The 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 295463. 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.