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Patersonville, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the East Palatka census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32131. It stands on Dog Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hastings quadrangle.

Patersonville 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 Patersonville, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Patersonville, surveyed 1912

Compare 1912 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

174 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 174 fires within 5 miles of Patersonville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 743 acres in total. 44 started naturally. 16 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
Natural44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Equipment and vehicle use22
Debris and open burning20
Arson/incendiarism16
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1

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
19 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePUTNAM/MILLICAN RD FIRE
18 September 2016Natural49 acresFlorida Forest ServiceFOREST CREEK 2 (54)
14 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePUTNAM/RUN AWAY FIRE
9 August 1995Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2016Natural12 acresFlorida Forest ServiceFOREST CREEK (54)
22 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePUTNAM/PANIC FIRE
20 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePUTNAM/ROUND HOUSE FIRE/0861
18 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceOAK HAVEN RD (54)

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Orange Mills0.7 miles16
Cypress Point0.7 miles16
Grandview1.1 miles16
East Palatka2.2 miles16
Fairview2.3 miles16
Pecan3.8 miles17
Rollestown (historical)3.9 miles16
Palatka4.0 miles17

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 Q122570613The 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 295527. 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.