Malore Gardens, Florida
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Gainesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32608. It stands on Sweetwater Branch. The Survey maps it on the Micanopy quadrangle.
Then and now
1890 to 1981The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1890 against another survey:
On record in Malore Gardens
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Dan Branch Houselisted 2015 · 0.1 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 19 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.
- 1890 USGS Arredondo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1892 USGS Arredondo quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Arredondo quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1954 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Micanopy quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1981 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
126 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Malore Gardens between 1992 and 2020, burning about 473 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 6 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 | 30 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 28 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 18 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 10 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 1 September 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 945 |
| 9 August 2008 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | ALACHUA/NE 8TH AVE |
| 6 August 2011 | Natural | 243 acres | Florida Forest Service | PAYNES PRAIRIE(01) |
| 21 August 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 2005-08-0502 /ALACHUA |
| 16 August 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 15 August 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 15 August 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 21,015 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 21,015 specimens collected within 10 miles of Malore Gardens between 1806 and 1975: 8,908 Animalia, 8,836 Fungi, 1,841 Protozoa, 1,175 Plantae, 143 Chromista, 110 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Xylocopa micans Lepeletier, 1841 | 1847 | not recorded | Gainesville |
![]() | Astragalus L. | 1876 | Abraham P. Garber | |
![]() | Corallorrhiza Gagnebin | 1876 | Abraham P. Garber | |
![]() | Ditrichum pallidum (Hedw.) Hampe | 1806 | C. E. Faxon | |
![]() | Canthon pilularius (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1822 | F. W. Walker | Gainesville |
![]() | Ilex vomitoria Aiton | 1826 | A. P. Garber | |
![]() | Ctenium aromaticum (Walter) Alph.Wood | 1842 | F Engel | |
![]() | Cryptotis parva (Say, 1823) | 1860 | A. Arata | Gainesville, 6 mi. NW |
![]() | Geomys pinetis Rafinesque, 1817 | 1860 | James Layne | Gainesville |
![]() | Myotis Kaup, 1829 | 1860 | Harley B. Sherman | Gainesville |
![]() | Myotis austroriparius (Rhoads, 1897) | 1860 | unknown | Gainesville, 10 mi. W |
![]() | Utricularia subulata L. | 1873 | C. E. Faxon | Gainesville |
All 21,015 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Malore Gardens: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| V. E. Whitehurst & Sons, Inc. - Starvation Hill Mine | Sand | Unknown |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rocky Point | 0.4 miles | 19 | |
| South Idylwild | 0.9 miles | 19 | |
| Idylwild | 1.3 miles | 19 | |
| Alachua II (historical) | 1.8 miles | 19 | |
| Robinson Heights | 2.2 miles | 19 | |
| Melton Manor | 2.2 miles | 19 | |
| Robinswood | 2.5 miles | 19 | |
| Daysville | 2.5 miles | 21 |
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 Q122566753 | The 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 301327. 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.



















