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Quintette, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Century census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32533. It stands on Rocky Branch. The Survey maps it on the Molino quadrangle.

Quintette within Escambia County

Then and now

1921 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Quintette, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Quintette, surveyed 1921

Compare 1921 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

290 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 290 fires within 5 miles of Quintette between 1992 and 2019, burning about 840 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 13 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
Railroad operations and maintenance80
Debris and open burning72
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Equipment and vehicle use27
Misuse of fire by a minor22
Arson/incendiarism13
Recreation and ceremony12
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Smoking7
Natural4
Fireworks1
Other causes1

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
6 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2016Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSERENITY SPRINGS (57)
15 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMONROE AVE (17)
12 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Escambia County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Quintette: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Ford Farm Sand and Gravel ProspectSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Unnamed Clay DepositClayOccurrence

Every working recorded in Escambia County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Quintette in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2020: 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death. 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
December 2016LightningQuintette1 killedA 43 year old male was struck and killed by lightning as he was walking from his house to a detached carport.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindQuintette-NWS Storm Survey found a corridor of significant straight line wind damage n the north-side of Cantonment, from west of Quintette Road and east southeast toward the Escambia River, south of McKenzie Road and east of Highway 95A. Damage was noted to some homes with significant tree damage observed in the area.

Every storm recorded in Escambia 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
Cottage Hill2.4 miles16
Molino Crossroads3.8 miles16
Molino4.0 miles16
Farm Hill4.2 miles17
Cantonment4.2 miles17
Brickton4.7 miles16
Gonzalez6.0 miles17
Satsuma Heights6.0 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295564. 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.