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Simmons Crossing, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Berrydale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32565. It stands on Long Branch. The Survey maps it on the McLellan quadrangle.

Simmons Crossing within Santa Rosa County

Then and now

1948 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 30 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Simmons Crossing, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Simmons Crossing, surveyed 1948

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

180 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 180 fires within 5 miles of Simmons Crossing between 1992 and 2019, burning about 4,441 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 46 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
Equipment and vehicle use56
Arson/incendiarism46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Debris and open burning18
Railroad operations and maintenance16
Natural7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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 2002Equipment and vehicle use9.4 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2010Arson/incendiarism3.6 acresFlorida Forest Service57-FRIENDSHIP RD FIRE-0837
12 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 August 2006Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHWY 191 - 1498
2 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use200 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use200 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 July 1998Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 July 2019Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceJAMES JERNIGAN RD (57)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Rosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Simmons Crossing: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed Clay DepositClayProspect

Every working recorded in Santa Rosa 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
Berrydale2.8 miles14
Fidelis3.5 miles14
Whitfield5.2 miles14
Sellersville5.7 miles13
Munson6.2 miles14
McLellan6.5 miles13
Santa Maria7.3 miles12
Belandville7.7 miles12

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 Q122569466The 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 295626. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.