BlockTwin Pole, Florida
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the East Liberty census division. The Survey maps it on the Owens Bridge quadrangle.
Then and now
1946 to 1990The 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.
Compare 1946 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1946 USGS Owens Bridge quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1946 USGS Owens Bridge quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Owens Bridge quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
36 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Twin Pole between 1993 and 2018, burning about 4,280 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 28 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 August 1996 | Natural | under an acre | National Forests in Florida | HARD HAT |
| 30 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | National Forests in Florida | BAY CREEK |
| 20 August 2000 | Natural | 6.0 acres | National Forests in Florida | CHAD |
| 1 August 2017 | Natural | 141 acres | National Forests in Florida | 114 NEW RIVER |
| 5 July 1998 | Natural | 1.5 acres | National Forests in Florida | CAT BRANCH |
| 20 July 2000 | Natural | 63 acres | National Forests in Florida | CAT BRANCH |
| 13 July 2000 | Natural | under an acre | National Forests in Florida | BETTY |
| 6 June 2002 | Natural | 80 acres | National Forests in Florida | TWIN POLES |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilma | 7.1 miles | 13 | |
| Central City | 7.2 miles | 13 | |
| Bon Ami | 7.3 miles | 14 | |
| Kern | 7.6 miles | 13 | |
| Vilas | 8.3 miles | 13 | |
| Sumatra | 8.9 miles | 14 | |
| Tama (historical) | 9.4 miles | 14 | |
| Jensen Place | 9.7 miles | 13 |
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 Q122565364 | 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 306527. 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.