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Pine Barren, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Century census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32577. It stands on Morgan Branch. The Survey maps it on the McDavid quadrangle.

Pine Barren within Escambia County

Then and now

1941 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 53 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pine Barren, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Pine Barren, surveyed 1941

Compare 1941 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.

Fires near this place

137 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Pine Barren between 1992 and 2020, burning about 553 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 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
Railroad operations and maintenance35
Debris and open burning29
Equipment and vehicle use23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Smoking7
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks2
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
21 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 August 1998Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 August 2007Arson/incendiarism10 acresFlorida Forest Service17-BRICKTON ROAD FIRE - 1394
30 July 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceBEEN THERE FIRE - 1100
22 July 2006Natural5.1 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLIGHTS OUT FIRE-1261
19 July 2006Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceGIBSON ROAD FIRE -1219

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Escambia County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Pine Barren: 4 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand. 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
Campbell Sand and Gravel - Barth MineSandUnknown
Mcmillan Mill Company PitClayPast Producer
Mcmillian Mill Company 2 PitClayPast Producer
Mcmillian Mill Company 3 PitClayPast Producer
Unnamed Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Escambia County

Storms near this place

1 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Barren in 1 storm report in 2001: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2001Thunderstorm WindPine Barren$5,000High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees near Pine Barren.

Every storm recorded in Escambia 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
Barth1.1 miles15
Brickton3.1 miles16
Molino3.8 miles16
Molino Crossroads4.1 miles16
Bogia4.5 miles15
McDavid6.2 miles15
McKinnon7.4 miles15
Tenile7.6 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 Q122539737The 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 288821. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.