Half Moon, Florida

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.

1954 1981

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.

• 1954 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
• 1968 USGS Archer quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1981 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 162 fires within 5 miles of Half Moon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,271 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 11 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Pinesville
• Newberry
• Archer
• Buckingham West
• Jonesville
• Kanapaha

Every fire recorded in Alachua County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,137 specimens collected within 10 miles of Half Moon between 1860 and 1975: 565 Animalia, 401 Fungi, 109 Plantae, 55 Protozoa, 7 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A Chable & W McLane, A. H. Hardistry 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
	Piezobria Forster, 1869	1882	[Not Stated]	Archer
	Satronia tantilla Heinrich, 1926	1882	[Not Stated]	Archer
	Xylonomus Gravenhorst, 1829	1882	[Not Stated]	Archer
	Myotis austroriparius (Rhoads, 1897)	1860	unknown	Gainesville, 10 mi. W
	Agrotis malefida Guenée, 1852	1882	Lugger, O.	Archer
	Aulonothroscus schwarzi Blanchard, 1917	1882	M. Hubbard & Schwarz	Archer
	Elophila Hübner, 1822	1882	A. Koebele	Archer
	Hylephila phyleus (Drury, 1773)	1882	not recorded	Archer
	Sigela penumbrata Hulst, 1896	1882	Koebele	Archer
	Xylophanes tersa Linnaeus, 1771	1882	not recorded	Archer
	Agelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)	1885	M. Martin	FLORIDA: Alachua County; Archer
	Butorides virescens (Linnaeus, 1758)	1885	M. Martin	FLORIDA: Alachua County; Archer

All 1,137 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Half Moon: 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Alachua County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 300435. 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.