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Arredondo Estates, Florida

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Gainesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32608. The Survey maps it on the Arredondo quadrangle.

Arredondo Estates within Alachua County

Then and now

1890 to 1981

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Arredondo Estates, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Arredondo Estates, surveyed 1890

Compare 1890 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

130 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Arredondo Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 232 acres in total. 8 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
Railroad operations and maintenance36
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Debris and open burning18
Equipment and vehicle use14
Natural8
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2007Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA/HAYFIELD FIRE/0894
11 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA/ELLIS PARK
1 September 2004Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service945
23 August 1997Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2005-08-0502 /ALACHUA
26 July 2002Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 July 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 July 1994Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alachua County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 20,567 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 20,567 specimens collected within 10 miles of Arredondo Estates between 1806 and 1975: 8,668 Fungi, 8,624 Animalia, 1,854 Protozoa, 1,179 Plantae, 136 Chromista, 104 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Xylocopa micans Lepeletier, 1841Xylocopa micans Lepeletier, 18411847not recordedGainesville
Specimen of Astragalus L.Astragalus L.1876Abraham P. Garber
Specimen of Corallorrhiza GagnebinCorallorrhiza Gagnebin1876Abraham P. Garber
A photograph of the species Ditrichum pallidum, not of this specimenDitrichum pallidum (Hedw.) Hampe1806C. E. Faxon
A photograph of the species Canthon pilularius, not of this specimenCanthon pilularius (Linnaeus, 1758)1822F. W. WalkerGainesville
A photograph of the species Ilex vomitoria, not of this specimenIlex vomitoria Aiton1826A. P. Garber
A photograph of the species Ctenium aromaticum, not of this specimenCtenium aromaticum (Walter) Alph.Wood1842F Engel
A photograph of the species Cryptotis parva, not of this specimenCryptotis parva (Say, 1823)1860A. ArataGainesville, 6 mi. NW
A photograph of the species Geomys pinetis, not of this specimenGeomys pinetis Rafinesque, 18171860James LayneGainesville
A photograph of the species Myotis Kaup, not of this specimenMyotis Kaup, 18291860Harley B. ShermanGainesville
A photograph of the species Myotis austroriparius, not of this specimenMyotis austroriparius (Rhoads, 1897)1860unknownGainesville, 10 mi. W
A photograph of the species Podomys floridanus, not of this specimenPodomys floridanus (Chapman, 1889)1860James LayneGainesville, 8 mi NW

All 20,567 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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 Arredondo Estates: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Hole No 118 Clay ProspectClayOccurrence

Every working recorded in Alachua 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
Arredondo0.4 miles19
Kanapaha0.6 miles19
Riceland1.3 miles19
Robinswood2.1 miles19
Shannon Wood2.3 miles23
Clinch2.5 miles19
Alachua II (historical)2.8 miles19
Daysville2.9 miles21

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 Q122546492The 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 301330. 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.

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.