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Saint Teresa, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Carrabelle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32358. The Survey maps it on the Saint Teresa quadrangle. It stands 20 feet above sea level.

Saint Teresa within Franklin County

Then and now

1943 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Saint Teresa, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Saint Teresa, surveyed 1943

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Saint Teresa between 1992 and 2020, burning about 790 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 3 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
Natural17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Debris and open burning12
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
5 September 2007Smoking1.9 acresFlorida Forest Service(65) DRIFTWOOD DR FIRE
23 August 2015Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceOCHLOCKONEE BAY (19-6)
10 August 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2012Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSOPCHOPPY HWY (19-6)
30 July 2010Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(19) MCINTYRE FIRE
3 July 2007Natural5.1 acresFlorida Forest Service(19) THE LANDING #2
26 July 2000Naturalunder an acreSt. Marks National Wildlife RefugeNAT OUT 1
22 July 1995Natural8.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin 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
Sun N Sand Beaches4.8 miles17
McIntyre5.2 miles20
Southern Dunes6.3 miles17
Big Blackjack Landing6.9 miles20
Lanark Village8.2 miles20
Pine Log9.0 miles20
Carrabelle12.4 miles20
Yent Place13.8 miles20

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.

Wikipedia article on Saint TeresaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7591822The 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 308409. 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.