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Providence, Florida

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Worthington Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32054. The Survey maps it on the Ellisville quadrangle.

Providence within Union County

Then and now

1954 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 40 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Providence, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Providence, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

226 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 226 fires within 5 miles of Providence between 1992 and 2020, burning about 835 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 15 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 burning67
Railroad operations and maintenance47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Equipment and vehicle use30
Natural16
Arson/incendiarism15
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking3

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
4 September 2007Debris and open burning10 acresFlorida Forest Service03-63-NOV/MAILMAN FIRE-1137
17 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSOUTHBOUND WRECK (12)
11 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 August 2016Natural13 acresFlorida Forest ServicePOUNDS HAMMOCK (12)
9 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.6 acresFlorida Forest Service06-12-POUNDS HAMMOCK 2 FIRE
8 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFlorida Forest Service06-12-MYRTIS RD FIRE-1117

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

14 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Providence in 14 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 hail. 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 2000Thunderstorm WindProvidence$50,000no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindProvidence$20,000Suwannee county 911 call center reported a tree fell onto a power line which then caused the power line pole to fall onto a residence at 4555 west state road 238. Fire rescue responded and there were no injuries or structure fire. The time of damage was based on radar imagery.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindProvidence$20,000Roof blown off mobile home. Large trees and power lines were blown down.
March 2001Thunderstorm WindProvidence$15,000Large trees and power lines were blown down. Two mobile homes damaged. More than one half of the county was without power.
June 2001Tornado (F0)Providence$4,500Weak FO tornado. Large trees and power lines were blown down.
October 2023Thunderstorm WindProvidence$500A tree was blown down onto a power line near the intersection of SW County Road 245 and SW 44th Avenue. The time of damage was based on radar. The cost of damage was unknown, but it was estimated for inclusion of the event in Storm Data.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindProvidence$200A tree was blown down near S curve. The cost of damage was unknown, but it was estimated for the event to be included in Storm Data.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindProvidence-A tree was blown down near NW County Road 241 and NW 49th Lane. The time of damage was based on radar.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindProvidence-A tree was blown down onto a powerline near SW 31st Lane and West State Road 238. The time of damage was based on radar.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindProvidence-A tree was blown down near SW 44th Avenue and State Road 238. The time of damage was based on radar.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindProvidence-Photos were shared by the county EM which included a shed destroyed by winds, snapped trees and large tree branches down near the intersection of NW County Road 241 and East County Road 240. The time of damage was based on radar data.
August 2024Tornado (EF1)Providence-The tornado produced EF1 tornado damage at 7:40 PM as it touched down |south of State road 238 by snapping the tree trunk of a large hardwood |tree. The tornado proceeded northwestward to a homes along Southwest |85th Path, overturning a travel trailer, knocking down a wooden fence, |and uprooting another hardwood tree. The tornado's last impact was |tearing off the roof of a shed along southwest 85th Path before it |lifted. The tornado was on the ground for about 1 minute and was on |the ground a distance of just under a quarter of a mile. The Tornado |had a maximum width of about 20 yards and had maximum winds up to 93 |mph.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindProvidence-A large tree was blown down near County Road 241 and State Road 238. The time of damage was based on radar.
March 2000HailProvidence-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Union 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
Browns Still3.3 miles8
Miller5.0 miles8
Brown6.4 miles8
Dukes7.9 miles8
Guilford8.0 miles8
Worthington Springs8.3 miles8
Cliftonville8.7 miles8
Dana9.3 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 289341. 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.