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Svea, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Laurel Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32567. The Survey maps it on the Laurel Hill quadrangle.

Svea within Okaloosa County

Then and now

1949 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 29 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Svea, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Svea, surveyed 1949

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

157 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 157 fires within 5 miles of Svea between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,473 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 20 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 burning44
Railroad operations and maintenance38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Arson/incendiarism20
Equipment and vehicle use17
Smoking9
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural2
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
8 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Service66/PERKINS ROAD
30 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 September 1999Smokingunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSTEEL MILL CREEK ROAD (46)
30 August 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 August 1996Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use12 acresFlorida Forest Service46-602 FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Okaloosa 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 Svea: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand. 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
White Construction Company, Inc. - Pleasant Grove MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Okaloosa County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Svea in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2011Thunderstorm WindSvea-Two large trees blown down by severe thunderstorm winds near 60 mph, one 3 feet in diameter. Roofing shingles damaged to one single family residence.

Every storm recorded in Okaloosa 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
Laurel Hill3.0 miles13
Okaloo5.7 miles13
Campton8.9 miles14
Oak Grove9.2 miles13
Peaden10.4 miles13
Clear Springs11.0 miles14
Garden City11.6 miles14
Dorcas11.7 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295659. 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.

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.