Suwannee, Florida

12 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 32692. It stands on Demory Creek. The Survey maps it on the Suwannee quadrangle. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Suwannee within Dixie 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 Suwannee, surveyed 1978

Topographic sheet of Suwannee, surveyed 1954

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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
1954 USGS Suwannee quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Cedar Keys quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Suwannee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 370 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 12 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
Arson/incendiarism	12
Natural	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	1
Smoking	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 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge	ARSON2
25 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge	ARSON1
27 August 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	50 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
11 August 2020	Natural	15 acres	Florida Forest Service	DIXIE MAINLINE 2 (15)
6 July 2006	Natural	10 acres	Florida Forest Service	15-DUCK POND FIRE-0288
15 July 2007	Natural	1.0 acres	Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge	BARNETT CREEK
13 July 2006	Natural	42 acres	Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge	GATE 15
7 June 2011	Natural	11 acres	Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge	HUFFER FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Shired Island

Every fire recorded in Dixie County

Storms near this place

8 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Suwannee in 8 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2019	Flood	Suwannee	$75,000	There were multiple roads flooded across Dixie county. The county estimated that damage from road washouts and repairs totaled around $75,000.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Suwannee	$7,500	Five large trees were blown down on County Road 349 north of Suwannee. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Suwannee	$2,000	A power line was blown down in Suwannee.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Suwannee	$2,000	Trees and power lines were blown down.
March 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Suwannee	$1,500	The Dixie county emergency manager reported that a few trees were blown down. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
August 2019	Flood	Suwannee	-	A few inches of water was reported on Highway 349 near Suwannee.
August 2019	Flood	Suwannee	-	South Highway 349 starting at Highway 346 was closed to non-residents of Suwannee due to flooding.
September 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Suwannee	-	Several trees were blown down near Suwannee.

Every storm recorded in Dixie 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
Shired Island	5.6 miles	11
Horseshoe Beach	10.9 miles	11
Yellow Jacket	12.0 miles	12
Horseshoe	14.4 miles	11
Eugene	19.7 miles	10
Old Town	20.7 miles	10
Cross City	21.1 miles	10
Shamrock	21.7 miles	10

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.

Wikipedia article on Suwannee	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7650557	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 291907. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.