Sumner, Florida

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Cedar Key-Yankeetown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32625. The Survey maps it on the Sumner quadrangle.

Sumner within Levy 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 Sumner, surveyed 1978

Topographic sheet of Sumner, 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 Sumner quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Ocala quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

239 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 239 fires within 5 miles of Sumner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,121 acres in total. 112 started naturally. 10 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
Natural	112
Railroad operations and maintenance	31
Debris and open burning	30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Arson/incendiarism	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Other causes	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
6 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
5 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	BANKS PALMETTO ROOT38)
4 September 1992	Natural	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
3 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
3 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
29 September 2011	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	CR 345 AMMO(38)
29 September 2005	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	LEVY - TEN FIVE ONE ONE FIRE
22 September 2012	Other causes	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	345 (38)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Levy 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
Rosewood	2.4 miles	11
Wakasassa (historical)	2.8 miles	12
Cedar Key	6.5 miles	12
Lukens	9.1 miles	8
Beech Creek (historical)	9.2 miles	12
Ellzey	11.3 miles	10
Vista	11.8 miles	12
Fowlers Bluff	12.8 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 294938. 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.