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Mount Carmel, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Jay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32565. It stands on Dry Branch. The Survey maps it on the Fidelis quadrangle. 243 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 256 feet above sea level.

Mount Carmel within Santa Rosa County

Then and now

1943 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 51 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mount Carmel, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Mount Carmel, surveyed 1943

Compare 1943 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Mount Carmel grew from 227 to 243 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010227
2020243+16 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

217 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 217 fires within 5 miles of Mount Carmel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,615 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 25 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 use55
Debris and open burning48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined44
Arson/incendiarism25
Railroad operations and maintenance25
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony5
Other causes3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
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 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2006Arson/incendiarism26 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission82 MATTHEW LANE, AL
26 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use30 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Rosa 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 Mount Carmel: 2 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sulfur, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Petroleum (Oil), 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
Edward M. Chadburn, Inc. - Jay MineSandUnknown
JayPetroleum (Oil), SulfurUnknown
Escambia PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Escambia PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Jayfield Sulfer PlantSulfurPlant

Every working recorded in Santa Rosa 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
Jay2.6 miles15
Fidelis5.9 miles14
Cobbtown6.8 miles14
Whitfield7.7 miles14
Berrydale7.9 miles14
Brownsdale8.9 miles15
Simmons Crossing9.4 miles13
Sellersville10.1 miles13

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 Mount CarmelAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6024929The 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 295466. 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.