Pine Island, Florida

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.

1945 1990

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 Blountstown quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1945 USGS Blountstown quadrangle1:31680, 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 Blountstown quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Pine Island between 1992 and 2020, burning about 627 acres in total. 6 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Blountstown
• Eufala (historical)
• Choconickla (historical)
• Durham (historical)
• McNeal (historical)
• Selman

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Pine Island: 4 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Kaolin. 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 Calhoun County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 304806. 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.