BlockOkaloo, Florida
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Laurel Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32567. It stands on Coon Head. The Survey maps it on the Laurel Hill quadrangle.
Then and now
1949 to 1978The same ground, surveyed 29 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1949 USGS Laurel Hill quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Laurel Hill quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Laurel Hill quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Crestview quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
137 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Okaloo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 981 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 7 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 burning | 45 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 34 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Smoking | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 15 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Florida Forest Service | FOX PEN (46) |
| 11 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | STEEL MILL CREEK ROAD (46) |
| 1 September 2011 | Natural | 78 acres | Florida Forest Service | HART ROAD (46) |
| 25 August 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 22 August 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 12 acres | Florida Forest Service | 46-602 FIRE |
| 21 August 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.1 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 9 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 45 acres | Florida Forest Service | BARN FIRE (46) |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Campton | 3.4 miles | 14 | |
| Laurel Hill | 3.7 miles | 13 | |
| Oak Grove | 4.4 miles | 13 | |
| Peaden | 5.2 miles | 13 | |
| Clear Springs | 5.3 miles | 14 | |
| Svea | 5.7 miles | 13 | |
| Garden City | 6.3 miles | 14 | |
| Auburn | 7.1 miles | 14 |
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 Q122550404 | The 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 295502. 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.