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Port Inglis, Florida

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Cedar Key-Yankeetown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34498. It lies near Chambers Island. The Survey maps it on the Withlacoochee Bay OE S quadrangle.

Port Inglis within Levy County

Then and now

1955 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 24 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Port Inglis, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Port Inglis, surveyed 1955

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

81 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Port Inglis between 1992 and 2017, burning about 536 acres in total. 66 started naturally. 6 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
Natural66
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1

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
28 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2006Smokingunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceLEVY - JIFFY LUBE FIRE
3 August 2006Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLEVY -BLADELESS HORSEMAN FIRE
28 August 1997Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 August 2005Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service09/CURTIS FIRE/0590
2 August 1992Natural25 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 August 1998Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 August 2009Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service09/BARGE CANAL/0870

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Levy County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Port Inglis: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gulf Coast QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Holnam - Crystal River QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Independent Aggregates - Ind. Agg. QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Levy 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
Yankeetown3.4 miles12
Crackertown4.9 miles12
Inglis5.5 miles12
Tidewater13.7 miles11
Beetree Ford17.3 miles11
Cedar Key17.6 miles12
Gulf Hammock17.9 miles10
Sumner18.9 miles11

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 Q122565575The 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 295556. 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.