Copeland Settlement, Florida
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Gainesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32609. It stands on Little Hatchet Creek. The Survey maps it on the Orange Heights quadrangle.
Then and now
1938 to 1981The same ground, surveyed 43 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1938 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1938 USGS Hawthorn quadrangle1:48000
- 1943 USGS Hawthorn quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Orange Heights quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1981 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
242 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 242 fires within 5 miles of Copeland Settlement between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,654 acres in total. 45 started naturally. 16 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 47 |
| Natural | 45 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 38 |
| Debris and open burning | 20 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 19 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 16 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 24 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 2 September 1994 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 13 September 2007 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | ALACHUA/96TH AVE FIRE |
| 12 September 2007 | Other causes | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | ALACHUA/CRAZY |
| 9 August 2008 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | ALACHUA/NE 8TH AVE |
| 8 August 2020 | Natural | 132 acres | Florida Forest Service | TREATMENT CENTER (01) |
| 6 August 2020 | Natural | 8.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | HATCHET (01) |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 20,698 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 20,698 specimens collected within 10 miles of Copeland Settlement between 1806 and 1975: 8,760 Animalia, 8,733 Fungi, 1,840 Protozoa, 1,123 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Xylocopa micans Lepeletier, 1841 | 1847 | not recorded | Gainesville |
![]() | Astragalus L. | 1876 | Abraham P. Garber | |
![]() | Corallorrhiza Gagnebin | 1876 | Abraham P. Garber | |
![]() | Ditrichum pallidum (Hedw.) Hampe | 1806 | C. E. Faxon | |
![]() | Canthon pilularius (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1822 | F. W. Walker | Gainesville |
![]() | Ilex vomitoria Aiton | 1826 | A. P. Garber | |
![]() | Burmannia biflora L. | 1850 | H Gillman | |
![]() | Ctenium aromaticum (Walter) Alph.Wood | 1850 | H Gillman | |
![]() | Cyperus croceus Vahl | 1850 | H Gillman | |
![]() | Cyperus lecontei Torr. ex Steud. | 1850 | H Gillman | |
![]() | Cyperus retrorsus Chapm. | 1850 | H Gillman | |
![]() | Fimbristylis vahlii (Lam.) Link | 1850 | H Gillman |
All 20,698 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Copeland Settlement: 2 unknowns, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, Free. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pirkle Deposit #1 | Phosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, Free | Prospect | 1956 | |
| Alachua Co Public Works - 40 Acre Mine | Sand | Unknown | ||
| V. E. Whitehurst & Sons, Inc. - Starvation Hill Mine | Sand | Unknown |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newnans Lake Homesites | 1.8 miles | 13 | |
| Ruthland | 2.1 miles | 21 | |
| Green Grove | 3.1 miles | 21 | |
| Kreftwood Estates | 3.3 miles | 21 | |
| Fairbanks | 3.5 miles | 21 | |
| Kincaid Hills | 3.6 miles | 21 | |
| Windsor | 3.7 miles | 13 | |
| Lincoln Estates | 3.9 miles | 21 |
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 Q122547251 | The 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 280790. 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.


















