BlockStewart City, 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 32359. It lies near Lazy Island. The Survey maps it on the Steinhatchee quadrangle.
Then and now
1954 to 1978The 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 sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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
- 1954 USGS Steinhatchee quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Cross City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
274 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 274 fires within 5 miles of Stewart City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,447 acres in total. 35 started naturally. 57 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 use | 103 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 57 |
| Natural | 35 |
| Debris and open burning | 32 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 12 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1999 | Natural | 15 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 3 September 2014 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | DIXIE CAMP MAINLINE #2 (15) |
| 24 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | CEDAR (15) |
| 19 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 391 AVE (15) |
| 14 September 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | MADDIE'S MARKET (62) |
| 14 September 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 13 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 12 September 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 902 STREET (15) |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Q122567213 | 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 300237. 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.