BlockSaunders, Florida
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Youngstown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32466. The Survey maps it on the Fountain quadrangle.
Then and now
1945 to 1988The same ground, surveyed 43 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
8 surveys from 14 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.
- 1945 USGS Fountain quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1945 USGS Fountain quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Panama City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Fountain quadrangle1:24000
- 1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
265 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 265 fires within 5 miles of Saunders between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,190 acres in total. 39 started naturally. 10 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 maintenance | 61 |
| Debris and open burning | 59 |
| Natural | 39 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 32 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 29 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 19 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Other causes | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 7.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 03/SILVERLAKE-0505 |
| 30 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 03/CROWSON 2006-02-0967 |
| 3 September 1992 | Natural | 80 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 29 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | SINGER RD FIRE(03) |
| 28 September 2016 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | GRIFFIN ROAD (03) |
| 25 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | PARK PLACE (03) |
| 22 September 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 18 September 2019 | Natural | 36 acres | Florida Forest Service | CRESTLINE RD (07) |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saunders in 5 storm reports between 2018 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Saunders | - | A tree was blown down on Sandstone Road. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Saunders | - | A tree was down on power lines along Highway 231 and East Linger Longer Road. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Saunders | - | A tree was blown down onto power lines at 1625 Sandstone Road. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Saunders | - | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Hail | Saunders | - | no account filed |
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 301109. 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.
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.