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Wolfolk, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Lake Wales census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33841. The Survey maps it on the Alturas quadrangle.

Wolfolk within Polk County

Then and now

1955 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 33 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Wolfolk, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Wolfolk, surveyed 1955

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

263 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 263 fires within 5 miles of Wolfolk between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,271 acres in total. 36 started naturally. 27 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
Debris and open burning52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Railroad operations and maintenance45
Equipment and vehicle use44
Natural36
Arson/incendiarism27
Other causes4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2012Debris and open burning12 acresFlorida Forest ServiceGENESIS (53)
2 September 2001Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2015Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceFRUITVILLE AVE. (53)
1 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 1993Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 August 1994Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 August 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Wolfolk: 1 unknown, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Diatomite. 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
Early Davis - Davis MineClayUnknown
Unnamed Diatomite ProspectDiatomiteProspect

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wolfolk in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 hail. 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 2013HailWolfolk-Broadcast media relayed a report from the public of nickel sized hail between Fort Meade and Frostproof.

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
Crooked Lake Park3.2 miles14
Southern Pines Recreational Vehicle Park4.8 miles14
West Frostproof5.2 miles16
Hillcrest Heights5.5 miles14
Highland Park5.7 miles14
Babson Park6.1 miles14
West Lake Wales6.3 miles17
Frostproof6.5 miles16

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 Q122556402The 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 295715. 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.