BlockSan Pedro Poturiba, Florida
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Dowling Park census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32062. The Survey maps it on the Mayo NE quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Then and now
1954 to 1979The same ground, surveyed 25 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Mayo NE quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Perry quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
142 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of San Pedro Poturiba (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 775 acres in total. 9 started naturally. None was 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 burning | 52 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 34 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 14 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 2 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 04-61-JUNK PILE FIRE-0844 |
| 14 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 176TH STREET (61) |
| 27 July 2006 | Natural | 15 acres | Florida Forest Service | 04-61-173RD ROAD FIRE-1198 |
| 11 July 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 4.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 10 July 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 6 June 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | HIGHWAY 354 (34) |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 294497. 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.