Monteocha, Florida

The same ground, surveyed 27 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1954 1981

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.

• 1954 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Monteocha quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1981 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of Monteocha between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,996 acres in total. 43 started naturally. 12 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Fairbanks
• Louise
• Paradise
• Northwood
• Shadow Lawn Estates
• Waldo

Every fire recorded in Alachua County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 7,659 specimens collected within 10 miles of Monteocha between 1806 and 1975: 4,180 Fungi, 2,408 Animalia, 703 Plantae, 286 Protozoa, 46 Unrecorded, 36 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A CARR, A. Arata 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
	Astragalus L.	1876	Abraham P. Garber
	Corallorrhiza Gagnebin	1876	Abraham P. Garber
	Aulacomnium palustre (Hedw.) Schwägr.	1883	S. J. Knight
	Ditrichum pallidum (Hedw.) Hampe	1806	C. E. Faxon
	Canthon pilularius (Linnaeus, 1758)	1822	F. W. Walker	Gainesville
	Ilex vomitoria Aiton	1826	A. P. Garber
	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

All 7,659 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Monteocha: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Alachua County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monteocha in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2015: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Alachua County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 294857. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.