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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.

Grove Park within Alachua County

Then and now

1938 to 1981

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Grove Park, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Grove Park, surveyed 1938

Compare 1938 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

159 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Railroad operations and maintenance24
Equipment and vehicle use19
Debris and open burning18
Arson/incendiarism8
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony3
Fireworks2

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
9 September 2007Fireworksunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA/CAMPVILLE RD FIRE
9 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA/57TH AVE FIRE
2 September 2001Natural12 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 1994Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2011Natural9.0 acresFlorida Forest Service234 BAY(01)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alachua County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 4,159 shown

Regional 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Sorosporium everhartii Ellis & GallowaySorosporium everhartii Ellis & Galloway1900Hume, H. HaroldOrange Heights
Specimen of Sphacelotheca nealii (Ellis & F.W.Anderson) G.P.ClintonSphacelotheca nealii (Ellis & F.W.Anderson) G.P.Clinton1900H. Harold HumeOrange Heights
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 Egretta caerulea, not of this specimenEgretta caerulea (Linnaeus, 1758)1895Frederick DavisNeumaue Lake
A photograph of the species Egretta thula, not of this specimenEgretta thula (Molina, 1782)1895Walker, C.D.Windsor, Florida.
A photograph of the species Nycticorax violaceus, not of this specimenNycticorax violaceus violaceus Stotz et al., 19961895C.D. WalkerWindsor
A photograph of the species Porphyrio martinica, not of this specimenPorphyrio martinica (Linnaeus, 1766)1896Davis, FrederickAlachua Lake [Paynes Prairie].
A photograph of the species Acanthospermum australe, not of this specimenAcanthospermum australe (Loefl.) Kuntze1897J. H. Barnhart
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

All 4,159 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fry H.D.ProspectKaolinOccurrence

Every working recorded in Alachua County

Storms near this place

7 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 1996Tornado (F0)Grove Park$20,000no account filed
August 1999Thunderstorm WindGrove Park$2,500Large trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindGrove Park-Numerous large tree branches were blown down. Dime size hail was also observed.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindGrove Park-Trees were blown down in the Phifer vicinity along State Road 20.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindGrove Park-A convenience store reported trees were blown down west of Hawthorne along Highway 20.
July 2008HailGrove Park-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindGrove Park-no account filed

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
Phifer1.9 miles12
Rochelle3.4 miles12
Hawthorne3.6 miles12
Rex3.6 miles12
Windsor3.6 miles13
Campville4.9 miles12
Beckhamtown5.6 miles12
Newnans Lake Homesites5.7 miles13

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 ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q107334308The 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.