Okawahathako, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Interlachen-Florahome census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32177. It lies near Stokes Island. The Survey maps it on the Satsuma quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Okawahathako within Putnam County

Then and now

1912 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Okawahathako (historical), surveyed 1981

Topographic sheet of Okawahathako (historical), surveyed 1912

Compare 1912 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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.

1912 USGS Palatka quadrangle1:48000
1915 USGS Palatka quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1954 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Satsuma quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1981 USGS Saint Augustine quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

284 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 284 fires within 5 miles of Okawahathako (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,298 acres in total. 72 started naturally. 29 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
Natural	72
Equipment and vehicle use	54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	51
Debris and open burning	35
Arson/incendiarism	29
Railroad operations and maintenance	27
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Recreation and ceremony	5
Fireworks	1
Smoking	1

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
7 September 1993	Natural	1.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
27 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
25 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
23 September 1995	Natural	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
22 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	2003-08-1095 PUTNAM
21 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
18 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Florida Forest Service	2003-08-1089 PUTNAM
17 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	200 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Putnam 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Possum Bluff	2.3 miles	17
Buffalo Bluff	2.4 miles	17
Rodman	2.9 miles	21
Saratoga	3.0 miles	17
Satsuma	3.3 miles	17
Hunter	3.7 miles	21
Grand View Grove	3.7 miles	17
Nashua	4.1 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 294527. 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.