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Huntington, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Ocala census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34480. The Survey maps it on the Ocala East quadrangle. It stands 85 feet above sea level.

Huntington within Marion County

Then and now

1895 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Huntington, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Huntington, surveyed 1895

Compare 1895 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

187 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of Huntington between 1992 and 2019, burning about 716 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 16 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 maintenance50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Misuse of fire by a minor27
Equipment and vehicle use23
Arson/incendiarism16
Debris and open burning12
Natural9
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking4
Fireworks1
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
9 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMARION/THE DOGWOOD FIRE
8 August 2004Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMARION/SQUIRREL FIRE
3 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBAHIA FIRE/ MARION
26 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSE 78TH ST (42)
22 August 1999Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 August 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Huntington: 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand, Clay. 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
S & E Contractors, Inc. - Baseline MineSandUnknown
S & E Contractors, Inc. - Dr. Slaughter Fish MineClayUnknown
Santos PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marion 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
Montague1.5 miles16
Maricamp1.7 miles16
Silver Springs3.2 miles16
Camp Roosevelt3.3 miles16
Ocala4.3 miles17
Santos4.5 miles17
Silver Springs Shores5.0 miles17
Nubys Corner5.5 miles9

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 HuntingtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5945196The 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 303918. 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.

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.