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Pine Mount, Florida

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the McAlpin-Wellborn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32060. The Survey maps it on the McAlpin quadrangle.

Pine Mount within Suwannee County

Then and now

1954 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 27 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 Mount, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Pine Mount, surveyed 1954

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

232 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 232 fires within 5 miles of Pine Mount between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,031 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 11 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
Debris and open burning79
Railroad operations and maintenance51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Equipment and vehicle use27
Arson/incendiarism11
Natural7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
6 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest Service122ND (61)
5 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service184TH PLACE (61)
25 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest Service04-61-150TH FIRE-1185
13 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSTATION 2 (61)-0980
10 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresFlorida Forest Service61- EARL FIRE
8 August 2011Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCENTER (61)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Suwannee County

Storms near this place

7 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Mount in 7 storm reports between 2012 and 2021: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 tornado. 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
June 2021Thunderstorm WindPine Mount-A tree was blown down near the intersection of 164th Road and 161st Road. The time of the event was based on radar.
March 2020Tornado (EF0)Pine Mount-An EF0 tornado with peak winds near 85 mph briefly touched down north of County Road 252 south of Live Oak. The tornado damaged a chicken house and trees in the area. One large tree branch fell on a home.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindPine Mount-Trees were blown down east of Luraville near 180th Street and 177th Road.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindPine Mount-Trees were blown down at County Roadd 252 and 135th Road.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindPine Mount-A tree was blown down across 129th Road. The time of damage was based on radar.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindPine Mount-Trees and power lines were damage. A corn field was damaged due to a microburst. The event time was based on radar.
May 2012Heavy RainPine Mount-Four inches of rain fell in a 4 hour period about 3 miles east of Luraville.

Every storm recorded in Suwannee 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
McAlpin1.7 miles9
Padlock4.8 miles9
Houston7.0 miles8
San Pedro Poturiba (historical)7.1 miles9
Wellborn8.6 miles7
O'Brien8.6 miles9
Live Oak9.2 miles8
Slade9.3 miles8

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 Q122562050The 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 295094. 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.

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.