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Newport, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the East Wakulla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32327. It stands on Moriah Creek. The Survey maps it on the Saint Marks quadrangle.

Newport within Wakulla County

Then and now

1954 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 34 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Newport, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Newport, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

108 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Newport between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,100 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 5 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
Railroad operations and maintenance23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Natural21
Debris and open burning19
Equipment and vehicle use8
Other causes5
Arson/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSt. Marks National Wildlife RefugeSTRICKLAND FIRE
27 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 August 1993Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use7.8 acresFlorida Forest Service(65) HAYWOOD COMMAND
11 August 1994Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wakulla County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Newport: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hannon Mines - Hannon Mine #2SandUnknown
N. G. Wade Investment Co. - Wade MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Wakulla County

Storms near this place

9 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newport in 9 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
September 2011Thunderstorm WindNewport$3,000Trees and power lines were blown down in the eastern part of the county. Monetary damage was estimated.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindNewport$2,000Power outages were caused by downed trees and limbs.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindNewport$2,000Fallen trees or limbs resulted in a power outage along Highway 98 near Lighthouse Road as reported by the Duke Energy Outage website.
January 2014Thunderstorm WindNewport$2,000A power line was blown down at 489 Old Magnolia Rd.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindNewport$1,000A power line was blown down near the intersection of Highway 267 and Highway 98. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindNewport-Multiple trees were blown down.
March 2019Tornado (EF0)Newport-Scattered trees were blown down with a dual-pol tornadic debris signature on radar. This is a rural area with no other damage reported.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindNewport-A tree was blown down near the intersection of Highway 98 and Woodville Highway.
February 2016Thunderstorm WindNewport-Trees were blown down on the 7200 block of Coastal Highway.

Every storm recorded in Wakulla 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
San Marcos (historical)2.2 miles14
Saint Marks3.0 miles14
Shell Island3.3 miles14
Wakulla3.7 miles14
Plum Orchard3.7 miles14
Hyde Park4.8 miles14
Port Leon4.8 miles14
Vereen6.0 miles14

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.

Wikipedia article on NewportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5306159The 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 287721. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.