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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.

Copeland Settlement within Alachua County

Then and now

1938 to 1981

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Copeland Settlement, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Copeland Settlement, surveyed 1938

Compare 1938 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

242 since 1992

Regional 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 use47
Natural45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Railroad operations and maintenance38
Debris and open burning20
Misuse of fire by a minor19
Arson/incendiarism16
Recreation and ceremony9
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes3
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
30 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 1994Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2007Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA/96TH AVE FIRE
12 September 2007Other causesunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA/CRAZY
9 August 2008Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA/NE 8TH AVE
8 August 2020Natural132 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTREATMENT CENTER (01)
6 August 2020Natural8.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHATCHET (01)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alachua County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 20,698 shown

Regional 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 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 Burmannia biflora, not of this specimenBurmannia biflora L.1850H Gillman
A photograph of the species Ctenium aromaticum, not of this specimenCtenium aromaticum (Walter) Alph.Wood1850H Gillman
A photograph of the species Cyperus croceus, not of this specimenCyperus croceus Vahl1850H Gillman
A photograph of the species Cyperus lecontei, not of this specimenCyperus lecontei Torr. ex Steud.1850H Gillman
A photograph of the species Cyperus retrorsus, not of this specimenCyperus retrorsus Chapm.1850H Gillman
A photograph of the species Fimbristylis vahlii, not of this specimenFimbristylis vahlii (Lam.) Link1850H Gillman

All 20,698 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Pirkle Deposit #1Phosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, FreeProspect1956
Alachua Co Public Works - 40 Acre MineSandUnknown
V. E. Whitehurst & Sons, Inc. - Starvation Hill MineSandUnknown

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
Newnans Lake Homesites1.8 miles13
Ruthland2.1 miles21
Green Grove3.1 miles21
Kreftwood Estates3.3 miles21
Fairbanks3.5 miles21
Kincaid Hills3.6 miles21
Windsor3.7 miles13
Lincoln Estates3.9 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 Q122547251The 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.