Grove Park, Florida
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Hawthorne census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32640. The Survey maps it on the Rochelle quadrangle. It stands 98 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1938 to 1981The 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.


Compare 1938 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1938 USGS Hawthorn quadrangle1:48000
- 1943 USGS Hawthorn quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Rochelle quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1981 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
159 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 159 fires within 5 miles of Grove Park between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,362 acres in total. 46 started naturally. 8 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 | 46 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 24 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 19 |
| Debris and open burning | 18 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2007 | Fireworks | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | ALACHUA/CAMPVILLE RD FIRE |
| 9 September 1997 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 30 September 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 20 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | ALACHUA/57TH AVE FIRE |
| 2 September 2001 | Natural | 12 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 2 September 1994 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 9 August 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 5 August 2011 | Natural | 9.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 234 BAY(01) |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 4,159 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 4,159 specimens collected within 10 miles of Grove Park between 1878 and 1975: 3,004 Animalia, 931 Fungi, 122 Protozoa, 74 Plantae, 15 Chromista, 13 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A S Rhoads, A S Rhoads; P Decker, A. & L. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Sorosporium everhartii Ellis & Galloway | 1900 | Hume, H. Harold | Orange Heights |
![]() | Sphacelotheca nealii (Ellis & F.W.Anderson) G.P.Clinton | 1900 | H. Harold Hume | Orange Heights |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | Egretta caerulea (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1895 | Frederick Davis | Neumaue Lake |
![]() | Egretta thula (Molina, 1782) | 1895 | Walker, C.D. | Windsor, Florida. |
![]() | Nycticorax violaceus violaceus Stotz et al., 1996 | 1895 | C.D. Walker | Windsor |
![]() | Porphyrio martinica (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1896 | Davis, Frederick | Alachua Lake [Paynes Prairie]. |
![]() | Acanthospermum australe (Loefl.) Kuntze | 1897 | J. H. Barnhart | |
![]() | 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 |
All 4,159 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Grove Park: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Kaolin. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fry H.D.Prospect | Kaolin | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
7 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grove Park in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2010: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Grove Park | $20,000 | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grove Park | $2,500 | Large trees and power lines were blown down. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grove Park | - | Numerous large tree branches were blown down. Dime size hail was also observed. |
| May 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grove Park | - | Trees were blown down in the Phifer vicinity along State Road 20. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grove Park | - | A convenience store reported trees were blown down west of Hawthorne along Highway 20. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Grove Park | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grove Park | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phifer | 1.9 miles | 12 | |
| Rochelle | 3.4 miles | 12 | |
| Hawthorne | 3.6 miles | 12 | |
| Rex | 3.6 miles | 12 | |
| Windsor | 3.6 miles | 13 | |
| Campville | 4.9 miles | 12 | |
| Beckhamtown | 5.6 miles | 12 | |
| Newnans Lake Homesites | 5.7 miles | 13 |
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 Grove Park | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q107334308 | 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 283471. 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.
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.

















