Cross Creek, Florida
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Micanopy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32640. It lies near Cow Hammock. The Survey maps it on the McIntosh quadrangle.
Then and now
1893 to 1978The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1893 against another survey:
On record in Cross Creek
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings House and Farm YardNational Historic Landmark · listed 1970
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 17 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.
- 1893 USGS Citra quadrangle1:62500
- 1895 USGS Citra quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1954 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS McIntosh quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1978 USGS Ocala quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
99 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Cross Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,379 acres in total. 35 started naturally. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 35 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 12 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 1 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | ALACHUA/CROSS CREEK FIRE |
| 18 August 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | ALACHUA/STICK CITY |
| 9 July 2000 | Natural | 10 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 6 July 2004 | Natural | 42 acres | Florida Forest Service | ALACHUA/ MANAGEMENT AREA |
| 5 July 2004 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | ALACHUA/LOCHLOOSA1 FIRE |
| 4 July 1998 | Natural | 15 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 29 July 2010 | Natural | 10 acres | Florida Forest Service | ALACHUA/AUSTIN CARY FIRE #1 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 1,341 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,341 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cross Creek between 1878 and 1975: 818 Animalia, 449 Fungi, 36 Plantae, 25 Protozoa, 7 Chromista, 6 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. & L. Rhoads, A. L. Welden, A. S. Rhoads 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Columbina passerina passerina (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1878 | not recorded | Unknown Specific Locality |
| Viperidae | 1889 | not recorded | 7499-UNITED STATES FLORIDA | |
![]() | Alligator mississippiensis (Daudin, 1801) | 1890 | not recorded | 7572-UNITED STATES FLORIDA |
![]() | Acanthospermum australe (Loefl.) Kuntze | 1897 | J. H. Barnhart | |
![]() | Meliola cookeana Speg. | 1897 | Thaxter R. | MCINTOSH |
![]() | Eudocimus albus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1898 | Oscar E. Baynard | Orange Lake, on an island in lake |
![]() | Agkistrodon piscivorus (Lacépède, 1789) | 1899 | WEBSTER, FREDERIC S | Specific Locality Unknown |
![]() | Anolis carolinensis Voigt, 1832 | 1899 | WEBSTER, FREDERIC S | Specific Locality Unknown |
![]() | Crocodylus acutus (Cuvier, 1807) | 1899 | WEBSTER, FREDERIC S | Specific Locality Unknown |
| Eumeces inexpectatus Taylor, 1932 | 1899 | WEBSTER, FREDERIC S | Specific Locality Unknown | |
![]() | Gopherus polyphemus (Daudin, 1801) | 1899 | WEBSTER, FREDERIC S | Specific Locality Unknown |
![]() | Micrurus fulvius (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1899 | WEBSTER, FREDERIC S | Specific Locality Unknown |
All 1,341 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms near this place
3 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cross Creek in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 2010: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cross Creek | $50,000 | Trees were blown onto homes in the Cross Creek area and near Micanopy. |
| April 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cross Creek | $8,000 | The public reported widespread damage at County Road 325 and Southeast 143 Street. Six large trees were either uprooted or snapped along a quarter mile path. All board fences along the path were blown over and power lines were blown down. The cost of damage was estimated. |
| June 1995 | Hail | Cross Creek | - | Golf ball-size hail was reported in Cross Creek. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evinston | 3.5 miles | 17 | |
| Island Grove | 3.8 miles | 17 | |
| Lochloosa | 3.8 miles | 12 | |
| Micanopy Junction | 4.3 miles | 12 | |
| Micanopy | 6.2 miles | 19 | |
| Alackaway Tolofa (historical) | 7.1 miles | 19 | |
| Phifer | 7.3 miles | 12 | |
| Grove Park | 7.9 miles | 12 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Cross Creek | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3003760 | 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 281093. 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.
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.
















