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Plum Orchard, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the East Wakulla census division. It lies near Collins Hammock. The Survey maps it on the Saint Marks quadrangle.

Plum Orchard within Wakulla County

Then and now

1954 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 34 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Plum Orchard, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Plum Orchard, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

76 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Plum Orchard between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,044 acres in total. 23 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
Natural23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Debris and open burning10
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Other causes4
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
30 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 August 1993Natural45 acresSt. Marks National Wildlife RefugeLARRY
24 August 1993Natural25 acresSt. Marks National Wildlife RefugeMOE
23 August 1993Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 August 1993Natural30 acresSt. Marks National Wildlife RefugeMARCIA
1 August 2019Natural45 acresSt. Marks National Wildlife RefugePORT LEON FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wakulla County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plum Orchard in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2019: 2 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
April 2019Thunderstorm WindPlum Orchard-A tree was blown down on Highway 98 east of Highway 267.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindPlum Orchard-A tree was blown down onto Coastal Highway.

Every storm recorded in Wakulla 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
Port Leon2.9 miles14
Saint Marks3.2 miles14
Shell Island3.7 miles14
Newport3.7 miles14
San Marcos (historical)4.3 miles14
Hyde Park6.2 miles14
Wakulla Beach6.6 miles14
Wakulla7.3 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295551. 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.