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Panacoochee Retreats, Florida

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Bushnell-Center Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33538. The Survey maps it on the Rutland quadrangle.

Panacoochee Retreats within Sumter County

Then and now

1893 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Panacoochee Retreats, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Panacoochee Retreats, surveyed 1893

Compare 1893 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Panacoochee Retreats between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,430 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 1 was 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
Natural16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
2 September 2014Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceOAK (60)
18 September 2018Natural20 acresFlorida Forest ServiceNW 13TH AVE (60)
30 August 2000Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 August 2020Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service529A (60)
10 July 1994Natural280 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 June 2008Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Service60/LOW BRANCH FIRE/0575
6 June 2000Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 June 2020Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSOUTHBOUND (60)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Panacoochee Retreats: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
M.J. Stavola - Sumterville MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Sumter 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
Carlson3.0 miles19
Coleman3.5 miles19
Lake Panasoffkee3.7 miles19
Monarch5.2 miles19
Sumterville5.4 miles15
Rutland5.5 miles19
Adamsville6.1 miles19
Wildwood6.8 miles19

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 Q122570947The 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 288446. 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.