Shired Island, Florida

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Cross City South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32680. It stands on Shired Creek. The Survey maps it on the Shired Island quadrangle.

Shired Island within Dixie County

Then and now

1954 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 24 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Shired Island, surveyed 1978

Topographic sheet of Shired Island, surveyed 1954

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1954 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Shired Island quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Cedar Keys quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

34 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Shired Island between 1993 and 2020, burning about 154 acres in total. 9 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
Arson/incendiarism	13
Natural	9
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
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
27 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge	SI CAMPGROUND DEBRIS
11 August 2020	Natural	15 acres	Florida Forest Service	DIXIE MAINLINE 2 (15)
6 July 2006	Natural	10 acres	Florida Forest Service	15-DUCK POND FIRE-0288
16 July 2007	Natural	6.0 acres	Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge	WILLIE LOCKE
13 July 2006	Natural	42 acres	Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge	GATE 15
7 June 2011	Natural	11 acres	Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge	HUFFER FIRE
28 June 2018	Natural	under an acre	Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge	SALT CREEK FIRE
19 June 2011	Natural	1.0 acres	Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge	MARSH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Suwannee

Every fire recorded in Dixie County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shired Island in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Shired Island	$2,000	Trees and power lines were blown down.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Shired Island	-	A tree was blown down in the Shired area.

Every storm recorded in Dixie 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Horseshoe Beach	5.5 miles	11
Suwannee	5.6 miles	12
Horseshoe	8.9 miles	11
Yellow Jacket	11.5 miles	12
Eugene	16.0 miles	10
Cross City	16.9 miles	10
Shamrock	17.2 miles	10
Old Town	18.3 miles	10

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 Shired Island	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54322478	The 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 291063. 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.