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Nashua, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Crescent City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32189. It stands on Acosta Creek. The Survey maps it on the Satsuma quadrangle.

Nashua within Putnam County

Then and now

1912 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Nashua, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Nashua, surveyed 1912

Compare 1912 against another survey:

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

155 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 155 fires within 5 miles of Nashua between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,842 acres in total. 42 started naturally. 15 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined42
Natural42
Debris and open burning30
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use13
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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 1993Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 September 1995Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceLONGTREE ST.54)
17 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use200 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 September 1993Natural5.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 1999Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 August 2006Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePUTNAM-HOOT OWL FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Putnam County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nashua in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2016: 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 2016Thunderstorm WindNashua-A tree and power line was blown down along Saint Johns Avenue.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindNashua-Trees were blown down across power lines along County Road 309 near Satsuma.

Every storm recorded in Putnam 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
Seminole Grove0.4 miles17
Grand View Grove0.4 miles17
Saratoga1.2 miles17
Possum Bluff1.8 miles17
Sisco2.3 miles17
Satsuma2.6 miles17
Welaka2.7 miles11
Okawahathako (historical)4.1 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295475. 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.