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Yellow Jacket, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Cross City South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32680. The Survey maps it on the Vista quadrangle.

Yellow Jacket within Dixie 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 Yellow Jacket, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Yellow Jacket, surveyed 1954

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

100 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Yellow Jacket between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,673 acres in total. 52 started naturally. 3 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
Natural52
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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
14 September 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 August 2001Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 August 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 August 1993Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 August 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 August 1993Natural7.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2017Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBAKER RD (15)
7 July 2011Natural14 acresLower Suwannee National Wildlife RefugePUSH TRAM ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dixie County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Yellow Jacket: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dixie County

Storms near this place

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yellow Jacket in 5 storm reports between 2006 and 2018: 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain, 1 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 2008Flash FloodYellow Jacket$100,000Several roads and low lying areas were flooded, including portions of U.S. Highway 19/27 between Cross City and Jonesboro.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindYellow Jacket$2,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
March 2018HailYellow Jacket-The public estimated quarter size hail at the Yellow Jacket RV Park.
June 2012Heavy RainYellow Jacket-A storm total rainfall of 9.09 inches fell during Tropical Storm Debby.
July 2006HailYellow Jacket-The public reported nickel size hail six miles west of Chiefland at Manatee State Park.

Every storm recorded in Dixie 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
Old Town9.6 miles10
Suwanee Old Town (historical)10.8 miles10
Eugene11.2 miles10
Shired Island11.5 miles11
Suwannee12.0 miles12
Cross City13.5 miles10
Horseshoe13.9 miles11
Shamrock14.6 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295719. 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.