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Lochloosa, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Hawthorne census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32640. The Survey maps it on the Hawthorne quadrangle. It stands 66 feet above sea level.

Lochloosa within Alachua County

Then and now

1938 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 43 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lochloosa, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Lochloosa, surveyed 1938

Compare 1938 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

186 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 186 fires within 5 miles of Lochloosa between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,862 acres in total. 55 started naturally. 22 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
Natural55
Equipment and vehicle use28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Debris and open burning24
Railroad operations and maintenance22
Arson/incendiarism22
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
5 September 2009Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePUTNAM/STARLAKE FIRE
25 September 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA/DOT FIRE
1 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA/CROSS CREEK FIRE
9 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePUTNAM/DEAD-END FIRE
22 August 1993Natural55 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 August 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 August 1993Natural25 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 979 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 979 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lochloosa between 1878 and 1975: 576 Animalia, 342 Fungi, 29 Plantae, 25 Protozoa, 4 Unrecorded, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. & L. Rhoads, A. S. Rhoads, A. Tissot 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
A photograph of the species Columbina passerina, not of this specimenColumbina passerina passerina (Linnaeus, 1758)1878not recordedUnknown Specific Locality
Viperidae1889not recorded7499-UNITED STATES FLORIDA
A photograph of the species Alligator mississippiensis, not of this specimenAlligator mississippiensis (Daudin, 1801)1890not recorded7572-UNITED STATES FLORIDA
A photograph of the species Acanthospermum australe, not of this specimenAcanthospermum australe (Loefl.) Kuntze1897J. H. Barnhart
A photograph of the species Meliola cookeana, not of this specimenMeliola cookeana Speg.1897Thaxter R.MCINTOSH
A photograph of the species Eudocimus albus, not of this specimenEudocimus albus (Linnaeus, 1758)1898Oscar E. BaynardOrange Lake, on an island in lake
A photograph of the species Agkistrodon piscivorus, not of this specimenAgkistrodon piscivorus (Lacépède, 1789)1899WEBSTER, FREDERIC SSpecific Locality Unknown
A photograph of the species Anolis carolinensis, not of this specimenAnolis carolinensis Voigt, 18321899WEBSTER, FREDERIC SSpecific Locality Unknown
A photograph of the species Crocodylus acutus, not of this specimenCrocodylus acutus (Cuvier, 1807)1899WEBSTER, FREDERIC SSpecific Locality Unknown
Eumeces inexpectatus Taylor, 19321899WEBSTER, FREDERIC SSpecific Locality Unknown
A photograph of the species Gopherus polyphemus, not of this specimenGopherus polyphemus (Daudin, 1801)1899WEBSTER, FREDERIC SSpecific Locality Unknown
A photograph of the species Micrurus fulvius, not of this specimenMicrurus fulvius (Linnaeus, 1766)1899WEBSTER, FREDERIC SSpecific Locality Unknown

All 979 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Cross Creek3.8 miles17
Island Grove4.0 miles17
Hawthorne5.6 miles12
Grove Park6.7 miles12
Micanopy Junction6.9 miles12
Evinston7.1 miles17
Phifer7.2 miles12
Rex8.2 miles12

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 LochloosaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19986831The 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 295413. 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.