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Usher, Florida

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Chiefland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32626. The Survey maps it on the Chiefland quadrangle.

Usher within Levy County

Then and now

1954 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 24 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Usher, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Usher, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

178 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Usher between 1992 and 2020, burning about 801 acres in total. 67 started naturally. 6 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
Natural67
Debris and open burning34
Railroad operations and maintenance26
Equipment and vehicle use19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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 2001Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2011Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSWILLY ISLAND(38)
18 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceNW 60TH ST. (38)
16 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceNW 68TH PL. (38)
12 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceLEVY/RE-BURN FIRE
10 September 2008Natural10 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLEVY/1114 GADS BAY FIRE
10 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceLEVY - ROADSIDE FIRE
8 August 1993Natural30 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Levy County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Usher in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2014: 2 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
August 2014Thunderstorm WindUsher$5,000Levy County Department of Public Safety reported several trees down in the Gulf Hammock area west of U.S. Highway 19.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindUsher$2,000Levy County Emergency Management reported a few trees and power lines down near Chiefland and Gulf Hammock.

Every storm recorded in Levy 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
Chiefland5.2 miles11
Otter Creek6.2 miles10
Hardeetown6.3 miles11
Ellzey6.8 miles10
Manatee Road8.9 miles10
Andrews9.3 miles10
Bronson9.7 miles10
Fowlers Bluff11.0 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 292718. 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.