Hainesworth, Florida
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the High Springs-Alachua census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32615. The Survey maps it on the Alachua quadrangle.
Then and now
1954 to 1981The 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 sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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.
- 1954 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Alachua quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1981 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
139 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Hainesworth between 1992 and 2020, burning about 567 acres in total. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 44 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 27 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1997 | Smoking | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 25 September 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 18 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | ALACHUA -4919 FIRE |
| 23 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | ALACHUA/112TH BLVD |
| 22 August 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | RANCH CLUB/ALACHUA |
| 19 August 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 31 July 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 630 |
| 5 June 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | BEBIRRE (01) |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 2,512 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,512 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hainesworth between 1842 and 1975: 1,081 Animalia, 878 Fungi, 258 Plantae, 237 Protozoa, 32 Unrecorded, 26 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A W Chapman, A. Gholson Jr., A. Arata 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks. | 1896 | Edmon West | Gainesville |
![]() | Ctenium aromaticum (Walter) Alph.Wood | 1842 | F Engel | |
![]() | Cryptotis parva (Say, 1823) | 1860 | A. Arata | Gainesville, 6 mi. NW |
![]() | Podomys floridanus (Chapman, 1889) | 1860 | James Layne | Gainesville, 8 mi NW |
| Animalia | 1873 | M. Roberts | Mouth of New R. (Aluchua/Bradford/Union Co. line) | |
![]() | Paspalum praecox Walter | 1889 | unknown | |
![]() | Rottboellia campestris Nutt. | 1889 | A W Chapman | |
| Aves | 1897 | not recorded | Alachua Co | |
![]() | Chordodes puerilis Montgomery, 1898 | 1906 | E. Anderson | High Springs |
![]() | Elsinoe fawcettii Bitanc. & Jenkins | 1907 | Rolfs | Alachua |
![]() | Peziza coccinea Huds. | 1907 | Dr. Beutan | Gainesville, Devil's Millhopper; Found on cone on dead root |
![]() | Corvus brachyrhynchos pascuus Coues, 1899 | 1908 | Oscar E. Baynard |
All 2,512 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hainesworth: 1 unknown, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Magnesite, Iron, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alachua Co Public Works - Kirby Mine | Sand | Unknown | ||
| La Crosse Deposit | Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Magnesite, Iron, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite | Prospect | Surface |
Storms near this place
3 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hainesworth in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2018: 1 hail, 1 heavy rain, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hainesworth | - | A tree was blown down and blocked the road near the intersection of County Road 237 and W State Road 235. |
| August 2015 | Heavy Rain | Hainesworth | - | Within about 2 hours 2.95 of rainfall was measured. |
| March 2011 | Hail | Hainesworth | - | Broadcast media relayed a public report of ping pong ball size hail about 3 miles north of Alachua. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newnansville | 1.9 miles | 11 | |
| La Crosse | 2.7 miles | 11 | |
| Hasan | 2.7 miles | 11 | |
| Burnetts Lake | 2.8 miles | 11 | |
| Hague | 3.6 miles | 11 | |
| Santa Fe | 4.5 miles | 8 | |
| Spring Hill | 4.5 miles | 12 | |
| Alachua | 4.8 miles | 11 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122557108 | 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 283594. 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.














