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Port Leon, 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 stands on Port Leon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Saint Marks quadrangle.

Port Leon 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 Port Leon, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Port Leon, 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

69 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Port Leon between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,506 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 2 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
Natural20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Debris and open burning7
Other causes4
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism2
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
30 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2010Naturalunder an acreSt. Marks National Wildlife RefugeQUAIL FIRE
3 August 1999Natural1.4 acresSt. Marks National Wildlife RefugeHOLDINGPEN
27 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 August 1993Natural30 acresSt. Marks National Wildlife RefugeMARCIA
12 August 2002Natural24 acresSt. Marks National Wildlife RefugeSAWGRASS
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

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Port Leon: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Peavy and Son, Inc. - Hannon MineLimestone, GeneralUnknownLimestone

Every working recorded in Wakulla County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Leon in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 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
August 2008Flash FloodPort Leon$500,000Numerous roads and low lying areas were flooded. Rainfall amounts varied from four to six inches over western portions of the county, to as much as eighteen inches in and around Newport and St Marks. Evacuations were ordered along the St Marks River at St Marks and along the Ochlockonee River in and north of Sopchoppy.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindPort Leon-The St Mark's Lighthouse Weatherstem station measured a wind gust of 60 mph.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindPort Leon-The St Marks Lighthouse Weatherstem gusted to 63 knots.
May 2022Tornado (EF0)Port Leon-A brief tornado touched down in Wakulla County in the St. Mark's Wildlife Refuge. The tornado began just west of Lighthouse Road, tracked across Lighthouse Road where it downed a pine tree, and continued southeast. In total, the tornado was on the ground for 2.5 miles. A well defined TDS (Tornadic Debris Signature) was evident on dual-pol radar.
May 2009HailPort Leon-Penny size hail was reported.

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
Saint Marks2.2 miles14
Shell Island2.3 miles14
Plum Orchard2.9 miles14
Wakulla Beach3.7 miles14
San Marcos (historical)3.8 miles14
Hyde Park4.4 miles14
Newport4.8 miles14
Live Oak Island6.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295557. 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.

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.