Alachua, Florida

The same ground, surveyed 27 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1954 1981

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

• City of Alachua Downtown Historic Districtlisted 2000
• Stephens Houselisted 2017

Alachua grew from 9,059 to 10,574 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

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.

• 1954 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Alachua quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1981 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Alachua between 1992 and 2019, burning about 518 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 4 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Chantilly Acres
• Hague
• Burnetts Lake
• Hainesworth
• Northwood
• Rutledge

Every fire recorded in Alachua County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 17,951 specimens collected within 10 miles of Alachua between 1806 and 1975: 8,596 Fungi, 6,130 Animalia, 1,791 Protozoa, 1,151 Plantae, 151 Chromista, 130 Unrecorded, 2 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A B GROBMAN, A CARR and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Xylocopa micans Lepeletier, 1841	1847	not recorded	Gainesville
	Astragalus L.	1876	Abraham P. Garber
	Corallorrhiza Gagnebin	1876	Abraham P. Garber
	Ditrichum pallidum (Hedw.) Hampe	1806	C. E. Faxon
	Canthon pilularius (Linnaeus, 1758)	1822	F. W. Walker	Gainesville
	Ilex vomitoria Aiton	1826	A. P. Garber
	Ctenium aromaticum (Walter) Alph.Wood	1842	F Engel
	Cryptotis parva (Say, 1823)	1860	A. Arata	Gainesville, 6 mi. NW
	Geomys pinetis Rafinesque, 1817	1860	James Layne	Gainesville
	Myotis Kaup, 1829	1860	Harley B. Sherman	Gainesville
	Myotis austroriparius (Rhoads, 1897)	1860	unknown	Gainesville, 10 mi. W
	Podomys floridanus (Chapman, 1889)	1860	James Layne	Gainesville, 8 mi NW

All 17,951 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alachua in 33 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 18 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 3 heavy rain, 2 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.

Every storm recorded in Alachua County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 307629. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.