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Newco, 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.

Newco 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 Newco, surveyed 2005
Topographic sheet of Newco, 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

378 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 378 fires within 5 miles of Newco between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,684 acres in total. 45 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
Debris and open burning90
Railroad operations and maintenance86
Missing data/not specified/undetermined65
Natural45
Arson/incendiarism26
Equipment and vehicle use23
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Power generation/transmission/distribution15
Recreation and ceremony8
Other causes2
Smoking1
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
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
16 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMCCALL TERR (12)
6 August 1993Natural31 acresNational Forests in Floridanot named
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
Watertown0.9 miles10
Navair1.3 miles10
Wilburn1.4 miles10
Halpata (historical)1.6 miles8
Lake City2.0 miles8
McColskey2.2 miles10
Five Points2.6 miles8
Miltons Campground Number 12.9 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 Q122596244The 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 306848. 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.