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Seminole Grove, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Crescent City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32189. It stands on Acosta Creek. The Survey maps it on the Satsuma quadrangle.

Seminole Grove 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 Seminole Grove, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Seminole Grove, 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

159 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 159 fires within 5 miles of Seminole Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,907 acres in total. 44 started naturally. 13 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined44
Natural44
Debris and open burning30
Equipment and vehicle use14
Arson/incendiarism13
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1

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
7 September 1993Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 September 1995Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceLONGTREE ST.54)
17 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use200 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 September 1993Natural5.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 1999Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 August 2006Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePUTNAM-HOOT OWL FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Nashua0.4 miles17
Grand View Grove0.5 miles17
Saratoga1.3 miles17
Possum Bluff1.9 miles17
Welaka2.4 miles11
Sisco2.6 miles17
Satsuma3.0 miles17
Okawahathako (historical)4.2 miles17

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 Q122589653The 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 295039. 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.