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Octahatchee, Florida

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Jennings census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32053. The Survey maps it on the Octahatchee quadrangle.

Octahatchee within Hamilton County

Then and now

1954 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 27 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Octahatchee, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Octahatchee, surveyed 1954

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

173 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of Octahatchee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 988 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 14 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 burning47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Railroad operations and maintenance29
Equipment and vehicle use19
Arson/incendiarism14
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Natural9
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Other causes3
Recreation and ceremony3

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 1999Debris and open burning133 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-LOWNDES-009
22 September 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceCR152-2(24-04)
20 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCOUNTY RD 152 (24-04)
2 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceNW CR152 (24-04)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hamilton 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
Bellville3.7 miles9
Jennings5.2 miles8
Blue Springs6.6 miles11
West Lake6.6 miles8
Crossroads6.7 miles11
Alapaha (historical)7.6 miles8
Avoca8.7 miles8
Adams11.0 miles9

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 Q122544063The 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 294871. 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.