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Mount Carrie, Florida

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 2005. It stands in the Lake City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32055. The Survey maps it on the Lake City East quadrangle.

Mount Carrie within Columbia County

Then and now

1954 to 2005

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 Carrie, surveyed 2005
Topographic sheet of Mount Carrie, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

207 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 207 fires within 5 miles of Mount Carrie between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,703 acres in total. 98 started naturally. 26 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
Natural98
Arson/incendiarism26
Equipment and vehicle use21
Railroad operations and maintenance17
Debris and open burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Recreation and ceremony7
Fireworks1

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 2011Naturalunder an acreNational Forests in FloridaVENT
3 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNational Forests in FloridaHOG PIN
25 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNational Forests in FloridaSTILL
23 September 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2014Natural42 acresNational Forests in FloridaLONGLEAF
6 August 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNational Forests in FloridaBOAT RAMP
31 August 2006Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresNational Forests in FloridaSTILL
26 August 2011Naturalunder an acreNational Forests in FloridaHOPEWELL CHURCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
McColskey3.1 miles10
Wilburn4.0 miles10
Navair4.6 miles10
Newco5.3 miles10
Watertown5.9 miles10
Lulu6.1 miles8
Halpata (historical)6.9 miles8
Five Points7.1 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 306075. 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.