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Tocoi, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the St. Augustine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32092. It stands on Paines Branch. The Survey maps it on the Riverdale quadrangle.

Tocoi within St. Johns County

Then and now

1947 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 44 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tocoi, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Tocoi, surveyed 1947

Compare 1947 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

113 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Tocoi between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,340 acres in total. 60 started naturally. 4 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
Natural60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use12
Debris and open burning9
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
9 September 1999Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 September 1994Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWOODWARD (55)
14 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWOODWARD RD(55)
10 September 2018Natural5.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceGREENHOUSE (55)
5 August 2006Natural15 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF-WOODWARD POWERLINE
4 August 1999Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Johns County

Storms near this place

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tocoi in 2 storm reports between 1999 and 2021: 1 tornado, 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
June 2021Thunderstorm WindTocoi$20,000A tree fell on a home and caused significant property damage. The time of the event was based on radar. The cost of damage was unknown, but it was estimated for inclusion of the event in Storm Data.
January 1999Tornado (F0)Tocoi$4,000Tornado was weak, and mainly at tree top level. Tornado originated in Putnam County and crossed the St. Johns River.

Every storm recorded in St. Johns 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
San Nicolas Tolentino (historical)0.6 miles13
Lane Landing0.9 miles13
Riverdale1.6 miles13
Meldrim Park2.9 miles13
Molasses Junction3.4 miles12
Pocotalaco (historical)5.0 miles13
Picolata5.2 miles13
Bakersville5.5 miles12

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 Q122568337The 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 308147. 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.