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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.

Hainesworth 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 Hainesworth, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Hainesworth, 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

139 since 1992

Regional 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 burning44
Railroad operations and maintenance27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use14
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking4
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 1997Smokingunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA -4919 FIRE
23 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA/112TH BLVD
22 August 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceRANCH CLUB/ALACHUA
19 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 July 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service630
5 June 2011Arson/incendiarism4.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBEBIRRE (01)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alachua County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 2,512 shown

Regional 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 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 Cryptotis parva, not of this specimenCryptotis parva (Say, 1823)1860A. ArataGainesville, 6 mi. NW
A photograph of the species Podomys floridanus, not of this specimenPodomys floridanus (Chapman, 1889)1860James LayneGainesville, 8 mi NW
Animalia1873M. RobertsMouth of New R. (Aluchua/Bradford/Union Co. line)
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 Peziza coccinea, not of this specimenPeziza coccinea Huds.1907Dr. BeutanGainesville, Devil's Millhopper; Found on cone on dead root
A photograph of the species Corvus brachyrhynchos, not of this specimenCorvus brachyrhynchos pascuus Coues, 18991908Oscar E. Baynard

All 2,512 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Alachua Co Public Works - Kirby MineSandUnknown
La Crosse DepositPhosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Magnesite, Iron, Aluminum, Fluorine-FluoriteProspectSurface

Every working recorded in Alachua County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2018Thunderstorm WindHainesworth-A tree was blown down and blocked the road near the intersection of County Road 237 and W State Road 235.
August 2015Heavy RainHainesworth-Within about 2 hours 2.95 of rainfall was measured.
March 2011HailHainesworth-Broadcast media relayed a public report of ping pong ball size hail about 3 miles north of Alachua.

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
Newnansville1.9 miles11
La Crosse2.7 miles11
Hasan2.7 miles11
Burnetts Lake2.8 miles11
Hague3.6 miles11
Santa Fe4.5 miles8
Spring Hill4.5 miles12
Alachua4.8 miles11

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 Q122557108The 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.