Alackaway Tolofa, Florida
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Micanopy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32667. The Survey maps it on the Micanopy quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Then and now
1890 to 1981The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1890 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1890 USGS Arredondo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1892 USGS Arredondo quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Arredondo quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1954 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Micanopy quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1981 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
62 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Alackaway Tolofa (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,534 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 1 was 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 16 |
| Debris and open burning | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 1993 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 25 September 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 10 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 6 August 2011 | Natural | 243 acres | Florida Forest Service | PAYNES PRAIRIE(01) |
| 13 August 2011 | Natural | 150 acres | Florida Forest Service | MICANOPY (1) |
| 9 July 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 6 July 1998 | Natural | 10 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 29 July 2010 | Natural | 10 acres | Florida Forest Service | ALACHUA/AUSTIN CARY FIRE #1 |
| 29 July 2000 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 15,642 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 15,642 specimens collected within 10 miles of Alackaway Tolofa (historical) between 1847 and 1975: 7,411 Animalia, 6,466 Fungi, 1,034 Protozoa, 545 Plantae, 114 Chromista, 70 Unrecorded, 2 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A B GROBMAN, A S Rhoads 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 |
![]() | Hypericum suffruticosum P.B.Adams & N.Robson | 1876 | Abram Paschal Garber | Gainesville |
![]() | Poria alabamae (Berk. & Cooke) Cooke | 1887 | Calkins | Florida |
![]() | Geomys pinetis Rafinesque, 1817 | 1860 | James Layne | Gainesville |
![]() | Myotis Kaup, 1829 | 1860 | Harley B. Sherman | Gainesville |
![]() | Utricularia subulata L. | 1873 | C. E. Faxon | Gainesville |
![]() | Asclepias humistrata Walter | 1876 | A. P. Garber | Gainesville |
![]() | Corallorhiza wisteriana Conrad | 1876 | A. P. Garber | Gainesville |
![]() | Croton argyranthemus Michx. | 1876 | A. P. Garber | Gainesville |
![]() | Croton glandulosus var. glandulosus | 1876 | A. P. Garber | Gainesville |
![]() | Euphorbia cordifolia Elliott | 1876 | A. P. Garber | Gainesville |
| Tillandsia recurvata (L.) L. | 1876 | A. P. Garber | Gainesville. |
All 15,642 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tacoma | 1.9 miles | 19 | |
| Micanopy | 2.0 miles | 19 | |
| Kirkwood | 2.5 miles | 19 | |
| Micanopy Junction | 2.9 miles | 12 | |
| Evinston | 4.2 miles | 17 | |
| Rocky Point | 5.1 miles | 19 | |
| Malore Gardens | 5.5 miles | 19 | |
| Rochelle | 5.6 miles | 12 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 294556. 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.


















