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Rideout, Florida

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Middleburg-Clay Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32068. It stands on Little Black Creek. The Survey maps it on the Middleburg quadrangle.

Rideout within Clay County

Then and now

1918 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Rideout, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Rideout, surveyed 1918

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 21 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

254 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 254 fires within 5 miles of Rideout between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,863 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 34 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 maintenance70
Misuse of fire by a minor37
Arson/incendiarism34
Debris and open burning34
Equipment and vehicle use25
Natural23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking2
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
3 September 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 August 1996Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 August 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service10 TUMBLEWEED 2 2008-07-0437
11 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest Service10 TUMBLEWEED 2008-07-0432
7 July 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMINK ROAD FIRE 2004-07-0235
6 July 2004Fireworksunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2004-07-0233
6 July 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Rideout: 7 occurrences, 3 producers, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Titanium-Heavy Minerals. 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
Highland MineTitanium-Heavy MineralsProducerLeucoxene, Zircon, Kyanite, Rutile
Russell MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Russell MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Florida Solite Company - Russell MineClayUnknown
Hole No 19 Clay ProspectClayOccurrence
Hole No 22 Clay ProspectClayOccurrence
Hole No 24 Clay ProspectClayOccurrence
Hole No 33 Clay ProspectClayOccurrence
Hole No 36 Clay ProspectClayOccurrence
Hole No 42 Clay ProspectClayOccurrence

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

12 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rideout in 12 storm reports between 2013 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 heavy rain, 1 hail, 1 flood. 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
July 2020Thunderstorm WindRideout$1,000Communications and electronics went down from a fallen tree along the 600 block of Simmons Trail. There was a lot of small limbs and tree debris down across Sunbridge Road from Henley Road to Ronnie Van Zant park. The cost of damage was unknown, but it was estimated for Storm Data.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindRideout-Two large trees were blown down across the southbound land of Henley Road. One tree fell onto power lines. The time of damage was based on radar.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindRideout-A large tree was blown down near the 160 block of Johns Street.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindRideout-A large tree was blown down onto a home which caused minor roof damage. The time of the event was based on radar.
May 2023Heavy RainRideout-A mesonet station in Middleburg measured 2.03 inches of rain in about 1 hour.
May 2022FloodRideout-Portions of Little Black Creek were overflowing it's banks and impacting croplands and yards in the area. This report was from MPNG. The cost of damage was unknown but it was estimated for inclusion in Storm Data.
August 2021Heavy RainRideout-A private weather station near Russel Road and Henley Road measured 4.83 inches of rainfall in the past 2 hours.
July 2019Heavy RainRideout-A public rain gauge measured a storm total rainfall of 2.06 inches.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindRideout-A tree was blown down. The time of damage was based on radar.
September 2013HailRideout-Quarter size hail was observed just south of Sandridge Road between Middleburg and Green Cove Springs.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindRideout-A two foot diameter tree was uprooted off of County Road 739 and Black Creek in the McRae Landing Subdivision.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindRideout-Multiple trees were blown down on homes along Hidden Waters Drive.

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Rattlesnake Bend1.2 miles21
Black Creek (historical)1.3 miles21
Doctors Inlet2.1 miles21
Asbury Lake2.5 miles21
Peoria Siding2.8 miles21
Middleburg2.8 miles21
Solite (historical)3.1 miles21
Lakeside3.9 miles24

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122568397The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 307207. 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.