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Tenile, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Northwest Escambia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32568. It stands on Bay Branch. The Survey maps it on the Barrineau Park quadrangle.

Tenile within Escambia County

Then and now

1921 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tenile, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Tenile, surveyed 1921

Compare 1921 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

147 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Tenile between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,571 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 21 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 burning40
Railroad operations and maintenance33
Arson/incendiarism21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use14
Natural11
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks1
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
3 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 1994Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2003Arson/incendiarism13 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2005Railroad operations and maintenance4.3 acresFlorida Forest Service912
31 August 1994Debris and open burning35 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2014Power generation/transmission/distribution16 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140829-001
10 August 2014Natural18 acresFlorida Forest ServiceDAN HALL ROAD (17)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Escambia 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 Tenile: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Boggy Creek Clay DepositClayOccurrence

Every working recorded in Escambia 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
Bay Springs3.0 miles15
Barrineau Park3.0 miles17
McKinnon4.0 miles15
Enon5.3 miles18
Molino Crossroads6.7 miles16
Barth7.4 miles15
Pine Barren7.6 miles15
Brickton7.6 miles16

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 Q122594639The 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 295669. 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.