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Kreftwood Estates, Florida

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Gainesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32641. The Survey maps it on the Gainesville East quadrangle.

Kreftwood Estates within Alachua County

Then and now

1890 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kreftwood Estates, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Kreftwood Estates, surveyed 1890

Compare 1890 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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

176 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 176 fires within 5 miles of Kreftwood Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 784 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 14 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
Equipment and vehicle use41
Railroad operations and maintenance30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Natural16
Arson/incendiarism14
Debris and open burning12
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking1
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
30 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2008Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA/NE 8TH AVE
9 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2020Natural132 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTREATMENT CENTER (01)
6 August 2011Natural243 acresFlorida Forest ServicePAYNES PRAIRIE(01)
31 August 1997Equipment and vehicle use30 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 21,073 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 21,073 specimens collected within 10 miles of Kreftwood Estates between 1806 and 1975: 9,016 Animalia, 8,846 Fungi, 1,837 Protozoa, 1,131 Plantae, 136 Chromista, 105 Unrecorded, 2 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A B GROBMAN, A CARR 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 Xylocopa micans Lepeletier, 1841Xylocopa micans Lepeletier, 18411847not recordedGainesville
Specimen of Astragalus L.Astragalus L.1876Abraham P. Garber
Specimen of Corallorrhiza GagnebinCorallorrhiza Gagnebin1876Abraham P. Garber
A photograph of the species Ditrichum pallidum, not of this specimenDitrichum pallidum (Hedw.) Hampe1806C. E. Faxon
A photograph of the species Canthon pilularius, not of this specimenCanthon pilularius (Linnaeus, 1758)1822F. W. WalkerGainesville
A photograph of the species Ilex vomitoria, not of this specimenIlex vomitoria Aiton1826A. P. Garber
A photograph of the species Cryptotis parva, not of this specimenCryptotis parva (Say, 1823)1860A. ArataGainesville, 6 mi. NW
A photograph of the species Geomys pinetis, not of this specimenGeomys pinetis Rafinesque, 18171860James LayneGainesville
A photograph of the species Myotis Kaup, not of this specimenMyotis Kaup, 18291860Harley B. ShermanGainesville
A photograph of the species Utricularia subulata, not of this specimenUtricularia subulata L.1873C. E. FaxonGainesville
A photograph of the species Asclepias humistrata, not of this specimenAsclepias humistrata Walter1876A. P. GarberGainesville
A photograph of the species Bignonia capreolata, not of this specimenBignonia capreolata L.1876A. P. Garber

All 21,073 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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 Kreftwood Estates: 1 prospect, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, Free, 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
Pirkle Deposit #1Phosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, FreeProspect1956
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
V. E. Whitehurst & Sons, Inc. - Starvation Hill MineSandUnknown

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
Green Grove0.2 miles21
Kincaid Hills0.7 miles21
Lakeview Estates1.0 miles21
Ruthland1.3 miles21
Lincoln Estates1.7 miles21
Newnans Lake Homesites2.0 miles13
Melton Manor2.1 miles19
Robinson Heights2.2 miles19

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 Q122544301The 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 301171. 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.