Evinston, Florida

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.

1893 1978

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

• Evinston Community Store and Post Officelisted 1989

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.

• 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

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Evinston between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,073 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 2 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Micanopy Junction
• Alackaway Tolofa (historical)
• Micanopy
• Tacoma
• Kirkwood
• Phifer

Every fire recorded in Alachua County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 3,531 specimens collected within 10 miles of Evinston between 1878 and 1975: 2,998 Animalia, 459 Fungi, 32 Plantae, 29 Protozoa, 7 Chromista, 6 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. L. Welden, A. S. Rhoads, A. Tissot 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
	Porphyrula martinica (Linnaeus, 1766)	1883	B. F. Squires	Payne's Prairie
	Viperidae	1889	not recorded	7499-UNITED STATES FLORIDA
	Alligator mississippiensis (Daudin, 1801)	1890	not recorded	7572-UNITED STATES FLORIDA
	Butorides virescens virescens (Linnaeus, 1758)	1895	George Graham	Gainesville, Alachua Lake
	Porphyrio martinica (Linnaeus, 1766)	1896	Davis, Frederick	Alachua Lake [Paynes Prairie].
	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

All 3,531 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Evinston in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.

Every storm recorded in Alachua County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 282322. 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.