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Pinland, Florida

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Perry South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32348. It stands on Middle Warrior Creek. The Survey maps it on the Perry quadrangle.

Pinland within Taylor County

Then and now

1954 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 25 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pinland, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Pinland, 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

235 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 235 fires within 5 miles of Pinland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 406 acres in total. 28 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
Debris and open burning59
Railroad operations and maintenance34
Equipment and vehicle use34
Natural28
Arson/incendiarism19
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking7
Other causes2
Fireworks1

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 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceFALLEN TREE (62)
7 August 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2010Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service62 - HEY FIRE - 0193
25 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceBEACH RD. (62)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taylor County

Storms near this place

2 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pinland in 2 storm reports between 2022 and 2023: 1 flash flood, 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
March 2022Flash FloodPinland$5,000A portion of Potts Still Road was washed out.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindPinland-A couple of trees were blown down along Beach Road.

Every storm recorded in Taylor 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
Athena2.7 miles10
Foley3.5 miles9
Bucell Junction3.9 miles9
Fenholloway4.4 miles9
Perry7.4 miles9
Hampton Springs8.2 miles10
Carbur8.7 miles10
Salem10.9 miles10

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 Q122566037The 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 295546. 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.