Bland, 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

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 Worthington Springs quadrangle1:24000
• 1981 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Bland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 602 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.

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:

• San Francisco Potano (historical)
• Santa Fe
• Traxler
• Hasan
• Spring Hill

Every fire recorded in Alachua County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 885 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bland between 1873 and 1975: 401 Animalia, 297 Fungi, 128 Plantae, 25 Unrecorded, 20 Protozoa, 14 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Gholson Jr., A. H. Smith, A. Martinez 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
	Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks.	1896	Edmon West	Gainesville
	Animalia	1873	M. Roberts	Mouth of New R. (Aluchua/Bradford/Union Co. line)
	Aves	1897	not recorded	Alachua Co
	Chordodes puerilis Montgomery, 1898	1906	E. Anderson	High Springs
	Fusicladium effusum G.Winter	1908	Fawcett? H. S.	Santa Fe
	Chrysops univittatus Macquart, 1855	1911	W. D. Appel	Santa Fe
	Coleosporium elephantopodis Thüm., 1878	1915	G. G. Hedgcock	Gainesville
	Coleosporium helianthi (Schwein.) Arthur	1916	G. G. Hedgcock	Gainesville
	Grus canadensis pratensis F.A.A.Meyer, 1794	1916	J. J. Simpson	High Springs, near
	Cyanocitta cristata cristata (Linnaeus, 1758)	1917	Collector(s): Marsden Treutlen Cleckley	High Springs
	Melanerpes carolinus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1917	Simpson, J J	High Springs
	Penstemon australis subsp. australis	1917	F. W. Pennell	High Springs

All 885 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bland: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Alachua County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bland in 5 storm reports between 2014 and 2020: 5 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.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295136. 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.

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.