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West Tocoi, Florida

13 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 Riverdale quadrangle.

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

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

165 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 165 fires within 5 miles of West Tocoi between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,660 acres in total. 71 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
Natural71
Railroad operations and maintenance24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Debris and open burning15
Equipment and vehicle use14
Recreation and ceremony7
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking1

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
2 September 1999Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2018Natural5.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceGREENHOUSE (55)
8 August 2011Natural25 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSTEEL CLUB(54)
3 August 2016Smoking1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCEDAR CREEK (54)
3 August 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 August 1993Natural20 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 West Tocoi: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, REE, Thorium. 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 DepositTitanium, Metal, Zirconium, REE, ThoriumProducer1969, 1972, 1986

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Tocoi in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
May 2020LightningWest Tocoi$15,000A home was struck by lightning near U.S. Highway 17 and Varney Road. A significant house fire occurred. The cost of damage was unknown but estimated for Storm Data.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindWest Tocoi-A tree was blown down at the intersection of Sungarden Road and Old Bostwick Road.
August 2008Tornado (EF0)West Tocoi-A tornadic waterspout was reported on the Saint Johns River northeast of Bostwick tracking north-northwest.

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
Brewers Landing1.6 miles13
Leno3.0 miles14
Walkill6.5 miles14
Green Cove Springs10.3 miles14
Magnolia Springs11.9 miles20
Pass Station12.2 miles14
Fellowship Park13.1 miles20
Penney Farms13.6 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 Q122560983The 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 295705. 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.