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Navair, 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 32025. The Survey maps it on the Lake City East quadrangle.

Navair 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 Navair, surveyed 2005
Topographic sheet of Navair, 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

352 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 352 fires within 5 miles of Navair between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,748 acres in total. 56 started naturally. 21 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
Debris and open burning78
Railroad operations and maintenance77
Missing data/not specified/undetermined60
Natural56
Equipment and vehicle use22
Arson/incendiarism21
Power generation/transmission/distribution15
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking2
Fireworks1
Other causes1

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
8 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceCR 242A(12)
28 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMARION AVE (12)
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
31 August 2006Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresNational Forests in FloridaSTILL
28 August 2014Arson/incendiarism1.7 acresFlorida Forest ServiceVOSS (12)
25 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

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
Newco1.3 miles10
Wilburn1.4 miles10
McColskey1.7 miles10
Watertown2.2 miles10
Halpata (historical)2.7 miles8
Lake City3.2 miles8
Five Points3.9 miles8
Miltons Campground Number 14.1 miles8

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 Q122596917The 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 306849. 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.