Manns Spur, Florida
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 2005. It stands in the Sanderson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32087. The Survey maps it on the Sanderson South quadrangle.
Then and now
1954 to 2005The same ground, surveyed 51 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1954 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1954 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Sanderson South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Lake City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 2005 USGS Sanderson South quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
252 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 252 fires within 5 miles of Manns Spur between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,373 acres in total. 66 started naturally. 34 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 66 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 59 |
| Debris and open burning | 34 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 34 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 26 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
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 2013 | Natural | 16 acres | National Forests in Florida | MIDNIGHT |
| 6 September 2001 | Natural | 7.0 acres | National Forests in Florida | OLD GUYS |
| 28 September 1993 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 26 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | GASKINS CIRCLE ( 02 ) |
| 2 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | IVORY (02) |
| 16 September 1997 | Natural | 50 acres | National Forests in Florida | LIGHTS OUT |
| 8 August 1997 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 7 August 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 05-02-3 AMIGOS FIRE-1236 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 350 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 350 specimens collected within 10 miles of Manns Spur between 1861 and 1975: 120 Animalia, 113 Fungi, 111 Plantae, 3 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. & H. Dietrich, A. H. Antonie, A.E. Daugherty 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Coleosporium vernoniae Berk. & Curt. | 1909 | W.T. Swingle | Glen St. Mary |
![]() | Bombus impatiens Cresson, 1863 | 1914 | H. Hume | Glen Saint Mary |
![]() | Xylocopa micans Lepeletier, 1841 | 1914 | not recorded | Glen Saint Mary |
| Libellula axilena Westwood, 1837 | 1861 | A. & H. Dietrich | Osceola National Forest, Ocean Pond Camp | |
| Eriocaulon compressum Lam. | 1887 | Miss H.M. Heading | ||
| Leucothoe axillaris (Lam.) D.Don | 1887 | Miss H.M. Heading | ||
| Rorippa teres (Michx.) Stuckey | 1899 | L. H. Lighthipe | Low grounds, Glen St. Mary. | |
![]() | Elsinoe fawcettii Bitanc. & Jenkins | 1904 | Rolfs P. H. | Glen St. Mary |
| Coniothecium Corda, 1833 | 1905 | Webber H. J. | Glen St. Mary | |
| Cladosporium caryigenum (Ellis & Langl.) Gottwald | 1907 | Orton W. A. | Glen St. Mary | |
![]() | Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks. | 1909 | W.T. Swingle | Glen St. Mary |
| Colletotrichum gloeosporioides (Penz.) Penz. & Sacc. | 1909 | W. T. Swingle | Glen St. Mary |
All 350 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sanderson | 2.8 miles | 9 | |
| Margaretta | 5.7 miles | 14 | |
| Olustee | 6.2 miles | 10 | |
| Okeafenoke Swamp (historical) | 6.9 miles | 10 | |
| Pine Top | 7.8 miles | 14 | |
| Manning | 8.7 miles | 12 | |
| Glen Saint Mary | 8.9 miles | 14 | |
| Sapp | 9.3 miles | 12 |
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 Q122545978 | 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 306001. 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.










