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Rice Creek, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Palatka census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32177. It stands on Rice Creek. The Survey maps it on the Palatka quadrangle.

Rice Creek 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 Rice Creek, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Rice Creek, 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.

Fires near this place

248 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 248 fires within 5 miles of Rice Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 957 acres in total. 79 started naturally. 17 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
Natural79
Equipment and vehicle use49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Debris and open burning25
Arson/incendiarism17
Railroad operations and maintenance16
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Recreation and ceremony5
Other causes3
Smoking2

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 2013Natural20 acresFlorida Forest ServiceRICE CREEK(54)
17 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlorida Forest Service309C (54)
14 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePUTNAM/RUN AWAY FIRE
12 September 2006Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePUTNAM/JOHNS RD FIRE
12 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2007Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePUTNAM/WILLIAM FIRE
11 September 2007Natural2.5 acresFlorida Forest ServicePUTNAM/PLUM FIRE
9 August 2000Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Putnam 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 Rice Creek: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Palatka MineClayPast Producer

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Pecan1.4 miles17
Teasdale2.6 miles17
Springside Park2.9 miles17
Springside3.3 miles17
Bardin3.3 miles17
Grandview3.4 miles16
Cypress Point3.9 miles16
Palatka4.0 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295574. 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.