Possum Bluff, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Crescent City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32189. It stands on Camp Branch. The Survey maps it on the Satsuma quadrangle.

Possum Bluff within Putnam County

Then and now

1912 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Possum Bluff, surveyed 1981

Topographic sheet of Possum Bluff, surveyed 1912

Compare 1912 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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.

1912 USGS Palatka quadrangle1:48000
1915 USGS Palatka quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1954 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Satsuma quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1981 USGS Saint Augustine quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

222 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 222 fires within 5 miles of Possum Bluff between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,280 acres in total. 60 started naturally. 24 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
Natural	60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	48
Equipment and vehicle use	35
Debris and open burning	27
Arson/incendiarism	24
Railroad operations and maintenance	12
Recreation and ceremony	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Fireworks	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 1993	Natural	1.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
27 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
23 September 1995	Natural	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
21 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
17 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	200 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
13 September 1993	Natural	5.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
8 August 1999	Natural	1.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
23 August 2006	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	PUTNAM-HOOT OWL FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Putnam 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Saratoga	0.6 miles	17
Grand View Grove	1.4 miles	17
Nashua	1.8 miles	17
Seminole Grove	1.9 miles	17
Satsuma	2.3 miles	17
Okawahathako (historical)	2.3 miles	17
Buffalo Bluff	3.0 miles	17
Rodman	3.4 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295043. 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.