Micanopy Junction, Florida
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Micanopy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32667. The Survey maps it on the Rochelle quadrangle.
Then and now
1938 to 1981The 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.


Compare 1938 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1938 USGS Hawthorn quadrangle1:48000
- 1943 USGS Hawthorn quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Rochelle quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1981 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
97 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Micanopy Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,870 acres in total. 33 started naturally. 4 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 | 33 |
| Debris and open burning | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 27 September 1993 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 1 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | ALACHUA/CROSS CREEK FIRE |
| 13 August 2011 | Natural | 150 acres | Florida Forest Service | MICANOPY (1) |
| 9 July 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 6 July 2017 | Natural | 22 acres | Florida Forest Service | BEE TREE RD (01) |
| 6 July 2004 | Natural | 42 acres | Florida Forest Service | ALACHUA/ MANAGEMENT AREA |
| 6 July 1998 | Natural | 10 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 4,704 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 4,704 specimens collected within 10 miles of Micanopy Junction between 1878 and 1975: 3,714 Animalia, 772 Fungi, 124 Protozoa, 75 Plantae, 11 Chromista, 8 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A S Rhoads, A S Rhoads; P Decker, A. & L. Rhoads 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Columbina passerina passerina (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1878 | not recorded | Unknown Specific Locality |
![]() | Myriotrema glaucescens (Nyl.) Hale | 1882 | H. W. Ravenel | Near Janesville. |
![]() | Porphyrula martinica (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1883 | B. F. Squires | Payne's Prairie |
| Viperidae | 1889 | not recorded | 7499-UNITED STATES FLORIDA | |
![]() | Alligator mississippiensis (Daudin, 1801) | 1890 | not recorded | 7572-UNITED STATES FLORIDA |
![]() | Butorides virescens virescens (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1895 | George Graham | Gainesville, Alachua Lake |
![]() | Egretta caerulea (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1895 | Frederick Davis | Neumaue Lake |
![]() | Egretta thula (Molina, 1782) | 1895 | Walker, C.D. | Windsor, Florida. |
![]() | Nycticorax violaceus violaceus Stotz et al., 1996 | 1895 | C.D. Walker | Windsor |
![]() | Porphyrio martinica (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1896 | Davis, Frederick | Alachua Lake [Paynes Prairie]. |
![]() | Acanthospermum australe (Loefl.) Kuntze | 1897 | J. H. Barnhart | |
![]() | Meliola cookeana Speg. | 1897 | Thaxter R. | MCINTOSH |
All 4,704 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evinston | 2.5 miles | 17 | |
| Micanopy | 2.9 miles | 19 | |
| Alackaway Tolofa (historical) | 2.9 miles | 19 | |
| Cross Creek | 4.3 miles | 17 | |
| Tacoma | 4.7 miles | 19 | |
| Rochelle | 5.2 miles | 12 | |
| Phifer | 5.3 miles | 12 | |
| Kirkwood | 5.4 miles | 19 |
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 Q122566062 | 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 295446. 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.

















