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Negrotown Knoll, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Lake Placid census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33852. The Survey maps it on the Crewsville SE quadrangle.

Negrotown Knoll within Highlands County

Then and now

1953 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 35 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Negrotown Knoll, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Negrotown Knoll, surveyed 1953

Compare 1953 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

63 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Negrotown Knoll between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,381 acres in total. 18 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
Natural18
Debris and open burning17
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
5 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHI-HENSCRATCH-1201
1 September 1994Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 July 2001Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 July 2020Natural7.0 acresFlorida Forest Service3 POND (28)
9 June 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceRHODODENDRON (28)
28 June 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 June 1998Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Highlands 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
Hen Scratch3.6 miles13
Placid Lakes8.2 miles13
Kuhlman8.9 miles14
Lake Placid9.2 miles14
Sylvan Shores10.4 miles14
De Soto City11.7 miles14
Highlands Park Estates11.9 miles14
Childs12.1 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.

Wikidata item Q122595433The 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 300949. 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.