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Slade, Florida

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Live Oak census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32064. The Survey maps it on the Live Oak East quadrangle.

Slade within Suwannee County

Then and now

1954 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 27 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Slade, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Slade, surveyed 1954

On record in Slade

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 5 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

305 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 305 fires within 5 miles of Slade between 1992 and 2020, burning about 927 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 9 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
Debris and open burning79
Railroad operations and maintenance79
Missing data/not specified/undetermined55
Equipment and vehicle use27
Misuse of fire by a minor18
Natural17
Power generation/transmission/distribution14
Arson/incendiarism9
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking2
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 1997Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Service06-12-136 FIRE-0885
30 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHWY 51 (61)
30 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service04-61-SNAG FIRE-1251
30 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2011Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceGUARDRAIL (04-61)
18 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service61-THOMAS FIRE-1150

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Suwannee 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 Slade: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Suwannee QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Suwannee 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
Live Oak0.8 miles8
Starr4.3 miles9
Rixford4.5 miles8
Padlock4.6 miles9
Dickert5.4 miles9
Houston5.7 miles8
Mercer6.2 miles9
Suwannee7.0 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 301620. 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.