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Pine Bluff, Florida

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the East Milton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32583. It stands on Yellow River. The Survey maps it on the Ward Basin quadrangle.

Pine Bluff within Santa Rosa County

Then and now

1934 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 60 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 Bluff, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Pine Bluff, surveyed 1934

Compare 1934 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

295 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 295 fires within 5 miles of Pine Bluff between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,779 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 19 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 maintenance93
Debris and open burning57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined45
Equipment and vehicle use29
Misuse of fire by a minor21
Arson/incendiarism19
Natural11
Smoking9
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony4
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
9 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2004Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceNEW LAKE FIRE-1076
6 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 September 1999Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2019Debris and open burning1.8 acresFlorida Forest ServicePATTERSON TOWN (57)
3 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceBENEVA RD FIRE1553
28 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance3.1 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Rosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Pine Bluff: 8 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Santa Rosa 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
Ward Basin2.0 miles20
Broxson3.0 miles20
Bagdad3.9 miles15
East Milton4.5 miles15
Galt City4.7 miles15
Milton6.0 miles15
Dickerson City6.8 miles18
Avalon Beach6.8 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295535. 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.