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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.

Cross Creek within Alachua County

Then and now

1893 to 1978

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Cross Creek, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Cross Creek, surveyed 1893

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

99 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use14
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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
25 September 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA/CROSS CREEK FIRE
18 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA/STICK CITY
9 July 2000Natural10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 July 2004Natural42 acresFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA/ MANAGEMENT AREA
5 July 2004Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA/LOCHLOOSA1 FIRE
4 July 1998Natural15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 July 2010Natural10 acresFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA/AUSTIN CARY FIRE #1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alachua County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 1,341 shown

Regional 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Columbina passerina, not of this specimenColumbina passerina passerina (Linnaeus, 1758)1878not recordedUnknown Specific Locality
Viperidae1889not recorded7499-UNITED STATES FLORIDA
A photograph of the species Alligator mississippiensis, not of this specimenAlligator mississippiensis (Daudin, 1801)1890not recorded7572-UNITED STATES FLORIDA
A photograph of the species Acanthospermum australe, not of this specimenAcanthospermum australe (Loefl.) Kuntze1897J. H. Barnhart
A photograph of the species Meliola cookeana, not of this specimenMeliola cookeana Speg.1897Thaxter R.MCINTOSH
A photograph of the species Eudocimus albus, not of this specimenEudocimus albus (Linnaeus, 1758)1898Oscar E. BaynardOrange Lake, on an island in lake
A photograph of the species Agkistrodon piscivorus, not of this specimenAgkistrodon piscivorus (Lacépède, 1789)1899WEBSTER, FREDERIC SSpecific Locality Unknown
A photograph of the species Anolis carolinensis, not of this specimenAnolis carolinensis Voigt, 18321899WEBSTER, FREDERIC SSpecific Locality Unknown
A photograph of the species Crocodylus acutus, not of this specimenCrocodylus acutus (Cuvier, 1807)1899WEBSTER, FREDERIC SSpecific Locality Unknown
Eumeces inexpectatus Taylor, 19321899WEBSTER, FREDERIC SSpecific Locality Unknown
A photograph of the species Gopherus polyphemus, not of this specimenGopherus polyphemus (Daudin, 1801)1899WEBSTER, FREDERIC SSpecific Locality Unknown
A photograph of the species Micrurus fulvius, not of this specimenMicrurus fulvius (Linnaeus, 1766)1899WEBSTER, FREDERIC SSpecific Locality Unknown

All 1,341 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

3 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1994Thunderstorm WindCross Creek$50,000Trees were blown onto homes in the Cross Creek area and near Micanopy.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindCross Creek$8,000The 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 1995HailCross Creek-Golf ball-size hail was reported in Cross Creek.

Every storm 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
Evinston3.5 miles17
Island Grove3.8 miles17
Lochloosa3.8 miles12
Micanopy Junction4.3 miles12
Micanopy6.2 miles19
Alackaway Tolofa (historical)7.1 miles19
Phifer7.3 miles12
Grove Park7.9 miles12

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 CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3003760The 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.