Southern Dunes, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Carrabelle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32346. The Survey maps it on the Lighthouse Point quadrangle.

Southern Dunes within Franklin County

Then and now

1943 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Southern Dunes, surveyed 1988

Topographic sheet of Southern Dunes, surveyed 1943

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1943 USGS Lighthouse Point quadrangle1:24000
1945 USGS Lighthouse Point quadrangle1:24000
1945 USGS Lighthouse Point quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1949 USGS Apalachicola quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Apalachicola quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Apalachicola quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Apalachicola quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Apalachicola quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Carrabelle quadrangle1:100000, 4 printings
1982 USGS Lighthouse Point quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Apalachicola quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Southern Dunes between 1993 and 2018, burning about 1,446 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 2 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 burning	8
Natural	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
26 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	MASHES SAND 2 (65)
23 August 2015	Natural	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	OCHLOCKONEE BAY (19-6)
10 August 1997	Natural	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
3 July 2007	Natural	5.1 acres	Florida Forest Service	(19) THE LANDING #2
29 July 1998	Natural	75 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
18 July 2007	Natural	40 acres	Florida Forest Service	(19) ALLIGATOR RD COMMAND
17 July 2000	Natural	25 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
17 July 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin 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
Sun N Sand Beaches	1.7 miles	17
Saint Teresa	6.3 miles	17
McIntyre	10.8 miles	20
Big Blackjack Landing	13.1 miles	20
Lanark Village	14.0 miles	20
Pine Log	15.3 miles	20
Carrabelle	18.1 miles	20
Carrabelle Beach	19.5 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 300195. 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.