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Eureka, Florida

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Fort McCoy-Anthony census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32134. The Survey maps it on the Fort McCoy quadrangle.

Eureka within Marion County

Then and now

1954 to 1999

The same ground, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Eureka, surveyed 1999
Topographic sheet of Eureka, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

133 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Eureka between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,590 acres in total. 61 started naturally. 7 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
Natural61
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Debris and open burning15
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Equipment and vehicle use12
Arson/incendiarism7
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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 2006Natural20 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTEUTON CREEK FIRE/MARION
5 September 1997Natural75 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMARION/EUREKA HYMIE
15 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 August 1999Naturalunder an acreNational Forests in FloridaPINE ISLAND 35
20 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 August 1992Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 August 1993Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Eureka: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand. 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
John R. Dykes - Magnolia Bluff MineSandUnknown
Ocala PittClay, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eureka in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2016: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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
September 2016Heavy RainEureka-Evening rainfall was 3.53 inches.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindEureka-A tree was blown down south of the Oklawaha River Country Store along County Road 301.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindEureka-Trees were blown down on County Road 314A.
June 2007HailEureka-Emergency management reported nickel size hail began to fall about 10 miles west of Salt Springs around 630 pm. The hail increased to quarter size hail around 639 pm in Salt Springs. A wooden porch was lifted from a mobile home and a metal shed was blown down near Highway 88 and State Road 316 near Salt Springs around 639 pm.

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Fort McCoy3.3 miles10
Tobacco Patch Landing4.2 miles9
Point Pleasant5.1 miles9
Bay Lake6.3 miles9
Kerr City6.4 miles9
Cedar Creek6.8 miles10
Burbank7.6 miles17
Hog Valley8.4 miles9

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 EurekaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q116029263The 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 305642. 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.

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.

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.