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Jonesville, 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.

Jonesville 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 Jonesville, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Jonesville, 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

154 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 154 fires within 5 miles of Jonesville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 659 acres in total. 5 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 maintenance52
Debris and open burning40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Equipment and vehicle use13
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
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 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service930
5 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA/HAYFIELD FIRE/0894
14 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceFLYING 10/1 (1)
11 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA/ELLIS PARK
17 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 July 1998Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 July 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 July 1993Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida 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 4,846 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 4,846 specimens collected within 10 miles of Jonesville between 1842 and 1975: 2,030 Animalia, 1,431 Fungi, 861 Protozoa, 456 Plantae, 41 Unrecorded, 27 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 Astragalus L.Astragalus L.1876Abraham P. Garber
Specimen of Corallorrhiza GagnebinCorallorrhiza Gagnebin1876Abraham P. Garber
Specimen of Piezobria Forster, 1869Piezobria Forster, 18691882[Not Stated]Archer
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 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 Agrotis malefida, not of this specimenAgrotis malefida Guenée, 18521882Lugger, O.Archer
A photograph of the species Aulonothroscus schwarzi, not of this specimenAulonothroscus schwarzi Blanchard, 19171882M. Hubbard & SchwarzArcher
A photograph of the species Elophila Hübner, not of this specimenElophila Hübner, 18221882A. KoebeleArcher
A photograph of the species Hylephila phyleus, not of this specimenHylephila phyleus (Drury, 1773)1882not recordedArcher
Specimen of Satronia tantilla Heinrich, 1926Satronia tantilla Heinrich, 19261882[Not Stated]Archer

All 4,846 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 Jonesville: 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

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
Los Trancos Woods3.6 miles23
Pine Hill Estates3.6 miles23
Haile3.7 miles11
Newberry4.4 miles11
Half Moon4.6 miles10
Pinesville4.6 miles10
Buckingham West4.7 miles23
Shannon Wood4.7 miles23

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 JonesvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3183558The 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 294820. 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.