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Haile, Florida

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Newberry-Archer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32669. The Survey maps it on the Newberry quadrangle.

Haile within Alachua County

Then and now

1954 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 27 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Haile, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Haile, surveyed 1954

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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 Haile between 1992 and 2020, burning about 640 acres in total. 4 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.

Reported cause Fires
Railroad operations and maintenance41
Debris and open burning35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use11
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Smoking5
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1

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
30 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA/2008-08-0629
31 July 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHAND SAW/ALACHUA
15 July 1994Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 July 1993Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 July 2001Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 June 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceCRAZY HORSE FIRE/ALACHUA
4 June 2001Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alachua County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 2,061 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,061 specimens collected within 10 miles of Haile between 1842 and 1975: 949 Animalia, 788 Fungi, 154 Plantae, 110 Protozoa, 35 Unrecorded, 25 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A Chable & W McLane, A W Chapman 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 Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks.Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks.1896Edmon WestGainesville
A photograph of the species Ctenium aromaticum, not of this specimenCtenium aromaticum (Walter) Alph.Wood1842F Engel
A photograph of the species Myotis austroriparius, not of this specimenMyotis austroriparius (Rhoads, 1897)1860unknownGainesville, 10 mi. W
A photograph of the species Podomys floridanus, not of this specimenPodomys floridanus (Chapman, 1889)1860James LayneGainesville, 8 mi NW
A photograph of the species Paspalum praecox, not of this specimenPaspalum praecox Walter1889unknown
A photograph of the species Rottboellia campestris, not of this specimenRottboellia campestris Nutt.1889A W Chapman
Aves1897not recordedAlachua Co
A photograph of the species Chordodes puerilis, not of this specimenChordodes puerilis Montgomery, 18981906E. AndersonHigh Springs
A photograph of the species Elsinoe fawcettii, not of this specimenElsinoe fawcettii Bitanc. & Jenkins1907RolfsAlachua
A photograph of the species Pilophorus nasicus, not of this specimenPilophorus nasicus Knight, 19261911W. DavisNewberry
A photograph of the species Stereum complicatum, not of this specimenStereum complicatum (Fr.) Fr.1914ConwayGainesville, San Falasco Hammock,10 miles NW of Gainesville; On hardwood
A photograph of the species Coleosporium elephantopodis, not of this specimenColeosporium elephantopodis Thüm., 18781915G. G. HedgcockGainesville

All 2,061 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Haile: 10 producers, 1 past producer. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, 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
Dickerson Fla.SandPast Producer
Haile PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Haile QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Warren Brothers Haile QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Limerock Industries - Newberry MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Limestone Prod.Limestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Limestone Prod.Limestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Limestone Prod. (Haile)Limestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Limestone Products - NewberryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Limestone Products - Newberry WestLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Alachua County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Haile in 1 storm report in 2012: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
October 2012Thunderstorm WindHaile-Trees were blown down in the spotter's neighborhood.

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
Newberry3.5 miles11
Forest Grove3.6 miles11
Jonesville3.7 miles11
Cadillac4.0 miles11
Wade4.3 miles11
Los Trancos Woods4.3 miles23
Buda5.5 miles10
Arno5.7 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 HaileAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5639229The 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 295331. 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.