Louise, Florida
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Waldo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32609. It stands on Moccasin Branch. The Survey maps it on the Waldo quadrangle.
Then and now
1941 to 1991The same ground, surveyed 50 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1941 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1941 USGS Starke quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Starke quadrangle1:50000
- 1949 USGS Starke quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Waldo quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1991 USGS Waldo quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
191 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 191 fires within 5 miles of Louise between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,305 acres in total. 34 started naturally. 30 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 maintenance | 42 |
| Natural | 34 |
| Debris and open burning | 32 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 30 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 26 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2006 | Natural | 60 acres | Florida Forest Service | ALACHUA/LIL HOBO FIRE |
| 4 September 2007 | Natural | 50 acres | Florida Forest Service | ALACHUA/TRAM RD FIRE |
| 22 September 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 14 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 18 PILE (04) |
| 23 August 1993 | Natural | 7.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 23 August 1993 | Natural | 4.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 23 August 1993 | Natural | 40 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 22 August 2006 | Natural | 6.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | ALACHUA/BIG YELLOW HOUSE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 850 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 850 specimens collected within 10 miles of Louise between 1850 and 1975: 398 Animalia, 335 Fungi, 89 Plantae, 15 Protozoa, 7 Unrecorded, 6 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Laessle, A. S. Rhoads, A. Stowers 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Sorosporium everhartii Ellis & Galloway | 1900 | Hume, H. Harold | Orange Heights |
![]() | Sphacelotheca nealii (Ellis & F.W.Anderson) G.P.Clinton | 1900 | H. Harold Hume | Orange Heights |
![]() | Burmannia biflora L. | 1850 | H Gillman | |
![]() | Ctenium aromaticum (Walter) Alph.Wood | 1850 | H Gillman | |
![]() | Cyperus croceus Vahl | 1850 | H Gillman | |
![]() | Cyperus lecontei Torr. ex Steud. | 1850 | H Gillman | |
![]() | Cyperus retrorsus Chapm. | 1850 | H Gillman | |
![]() | Fimbristylis vahlii (Lam.) Link | 1850 | H Gillman | |
![]() | Hypericum myrtifolium Lam. | 1850 | H Gillman | |
![]() | Saccharum alopecuroides (L.) Nutt. | 1850 | H Gillman | |
![]() | Sida acuta Burm.fil. | 1850 | H Gillman | |
![]() | Sorghastrum secundum (Elliott) Nash | 1850 | H Gillman |
All 850 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monteocha | 4.0 miles | 9 | |
| Waldo | 4.7 miles | 15 | |
| Lake Alto Estates | 6.5 miles | 15 | |
| Shenks | 7.0 miles | 15 | |
| Fairbanks | 8.0 miles | 21 | |
| La Crosse | 9.2 miles | 11 | |
| Santa Fe Beach | 9.2 miles | 16 | |
| Earleton | 9.4 miles | 12 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 286137. 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.




















