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Belleview Heights, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Belleview census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34491. The Survey maps it on the Belleview quadrangle.

Belleview Heights within Marion County

Then and now

1895 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Belleview Heights, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Belleview Heights, surveyed 1895

Compare 1895 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

190 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 190 fires within 5 miles of Belleview Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 919 acres in total. 5 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
Railroad operations and maintenance64
Debris and open burning41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Equipment and vehicle use25
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Natural5
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism3
Other causes1
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 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMARION/92 PLACE FIRE
11 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service725
22 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 August 2012Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHIGHWAY 25 (42)
14 August 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2000Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFlorida Forest Service484ROCKPIT(42)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Belleview Heights: 3 producers, 2 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand, 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
Pedro MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bedrock Resources - S.R. 42 MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Boutwell Limerock Mining - C.R. 484 MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Loar's Excavating Co. - Loar's Sand MineSandUnknown
Margie Wood Trucking, Inc. - Margie Wood MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Marion 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
Summerfield2.0 miles17
Belleview2.4 miles17
Monroes Corner2.7 miles17
Danks Corner2.7 miles17
Dallas3.7 miles18
Pedro3.8 miles18
Orange Blossom Hills4.1 miles18
Lake Weir4.3 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 294671. 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.