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Thomas City, Florida

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Wacissa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32344. The Survey maps it on the Wacissa quadrangle.

Thomas City within Jefferson County

Then and now

1954 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 25 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Thomas City, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Thomas City, surveyed 1954

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

80 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Thomas City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 195 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 was 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
Railroad operations and maintenance25
Debris and open burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
16 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 1993Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 August 1993Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 August 2002Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 July 2000Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 June 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(33) WACISSA SPRINGS FIRE
29 June 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(33) LIMESTONE FIRE
28 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFlorida Forest Service(33) WACISSA BURN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Thomas City: 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 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
Dot Tallahassee - Wacissa MineClayUnknown
Unnamed Clay ProspectClayOccurrence

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

5 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Thomas City in 5 storm reports between 2012 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2012Flash FloodThomas City$20,000Flash flooding occurred across portions of Jefferson county in association with Tropical Storm Debby. Reports include several feet of water in a homeowner's yard, water in homes on Horseshoe Road, flooding on Thompson Valley Road, and flooding on Highway 27 west of Highway 19 which caused Highway 27 to be temporarily closed. Monetary damage was estimated.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindThomas City-Tree were blown down.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindThomas City-Numerous trees were blown down on Peter Brown Lane including some snapped trees.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindThomas City-A tree was blown down near Waukeenah Highway.
March 2012Heavy RainThomas City-A 24 hour total of 3.53 inches was measured by FL-JF-7.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Wacissa0.8 miles9
Wacissa (historical)1.9 miles9
Limestone2.9 miles12
San Luis Apalache (historical)3.8 miles9
Willanocha (historical)4.0 miles9
Waukeenah4.0 miles9
Cody4.2 miles12
Capps5.0 miles9

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 Q122563856The 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 294945. 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.