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Walkill, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Green Cove Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32043. The Survey maps it on the Green Cove Springs quadrangle.

Walkill within Clay 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 Walkill, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Walkill, surveyed 1947

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

117 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Walkill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,636 acres in total. 35 started naturally. 7 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
Natural35
Railroad operations and maintenance24
Debris and open burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use11
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor4

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
8 September 2010Natural4.1 acresFlorida Forest Service10-GUSTAFSON'S FIRE-2010-07-0474
5 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 September 1999Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 August 1994Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 August 1996Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 August 1993Natural4.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service10 PARTRIDGE 2007-07-0484
17 August 1997Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay 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 Walkill: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: REE, Thorium, Titanium. 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
Green Cove Springs ConcentratorREE, Thorium, TitaniumPlant

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

7 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walkill in 7 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud. 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
February 2021Thunderstorm WindWalkill$1,000Trees were damage in the Virginia Village area of eastern Clay county south of Green Cove. The time of damage was based on radar. The cost of damage was estimated for inclusion of the event in Storm Data.
May 2025Funnel CloudWalkill-The public reported a funnel cloud near U.S. Highway 17 just south of Green Cove Springs.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindWalkill-A couple of large trees were blown down on the east side of Highway 17 south of Green Cove Springs. The time of damage was based on radar.
February 2021Heavy RainWalkill-Minor street flooding was observed with storm total rainfall of 3.65 inches.
December 2020Thunderstorm WindWalkill-A power line was blown down across the road south of Green Cove Springs.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindWalkill-Trees were blown down south of Green Cove Springs.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindWalkill-Power lines were blown down along U.S. Highway 17, north of the Putnam county line.

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Leno3.5 miles14
Green Cove Springs3.8 miles14
Brewers Landing5.0 miles13
Magnolia Springs5.4 miles20
West Tocoi6.5 miles13
Pass Station6.6 miles14
Fellowship Park6.6 miles20
Penney Farms8.4 miles14

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 Q122570710The 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 295696. 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.