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Ocheesee Gardens, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Sneads census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32442. The Survey maps it on the Sneads quadrangle.

Ocheesee Gardens within Jackson County

Then and now

1954 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 40 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ocheesee Gardens, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Ocheesee Gardens, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

160 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 160 fires within 5 miles of Ocheesee Gardens between 1992 and 2020, burning about 730 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 17 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 burning50
Railroad operations and maintenance26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use18
Arson/incendiarism17
Smoking8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
4 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2003-02-1052
30 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLEWIS LANE (32)
24 September 2019Debris and open burning73 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBLUEBERRY DRIVE (32)
20 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSEWER PLANT (32)
20 September 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceKAVA DR (32)
19 September 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Ocheesee Gardens: 2 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand, Clay. 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
Jackson Co. Bd of Co. Comm. - State MineSand, ClayUnknownClay, Sand
Unnamed Ls. ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
Unnamed Ls. ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect

Every working recorded in Jackson 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
Yamassee (historical)1.2 miles13
Shady Grove1.4 miles13
Osochi (historical)2.0 miles13
Inwood3.0 miles13
Hyhappo (historical)3.0 miles12
Sinai3.2 miles13
Tamathli (historical)4.1 miles13
Sneads4.2 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 Q122563826The 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 300064. 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.