Owl Landing, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the West Liberty census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32321. It stands on Little Owl Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kennedy Creek quadrangle.

Owl Landing within Liberty County

Then and now

1945 to 1990

The same ground, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Owl Landing, surveyed 1990

Topographic sheet of Owl Landing, surveyed 1945

Compare 1945 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

1945 USGS Kennedy Creek quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1945 USGS Kennedy Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Panama City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Kennedy Creek quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

63 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Owl Landing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,240 acres in total. 32 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
Natural	32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Arson/incendiarism	7
Recreation and ceremony	5
Debris and open burning	4
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	National Forests in Florida	MINI MARK III
30 September 2006	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.6 acres	National Forests in Florida	VOLUNTEER
10 September 1996	Natural	99 acres	National Forests in Florida	LITTLE OWL CREEK
1 September 2011	Natural	2.5 acres	National Forests in Florida	HOG BRANCH
6 August 1996	Natural	12 acres	National Forests in Florida	FLAT
28 August 1993	Natural	4.0 acres	National Forests in Florida	not named
23 August 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	National Forests in Florida	BLACK CREEK
20 August 2002	Natural	2.0 acres	National Forests in Florida	HOG

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Liberty 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
Sumatra	2.0 miles	14
Escambia (historical)	2.8 miles	15
Bon Ami	6.8 miles	14
White Oak Landing	7.5 miles	15
Kern	7.8 miles	13
Wilma	9.8 miles	13
Twin Pole	10.6 miles	14
Estanifanulga (historical)	12.0 miles	15

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 Q122552220

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 306183. 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.