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Chantilly Acres, Florida

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the High Springs-Alachua census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32653. The Survey maps it on the Gainesville West quadrangle.

Chantilly Acres within Alachua County

Then and now

1890 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Chantilly Acres, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Chantilly Acres, surveyed 1890

Compare 1890 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 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

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Chantilly Acres between 1992 and 2020, burning about 361 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Railroad operations and maintenance18
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural7
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2

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
6 September 1997Smokingunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA/ELLIS PARK
26 August 1999Natural45 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 July 2011Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWEISS(01)
11 July 2016Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceN.W. 93RD AVE (01)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alachua County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 18,598 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 18,598 specimens collected within 10 miles of Chantilly Acres between 1806 and 1975: 8,723 Fungi, 6,557 Animalia, 1,855 Protozoa, 1,178 Plantae, 153 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 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 18,598 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 Chantilly Acres: 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
Rutledge2.3 miles23
Alachua2.6 miles11
Wimberly Estates2.7 miles23
Northwood2.7 miles21
Shadow Lawn Estates3.0 miles23
West Park3.3 miles23
West Hills3.3 miles23
Suburban Heights3.5 miles23

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 Q122539735The 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 295190. 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.