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Newnans Lake Homesites, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Hawthorne census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32641. The Survey maps it on the Orange Heights quadrangle.

Newnans Lake Homesites within Alachua County

Then and now

1938 to 1981

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Newnans Lake Homesites, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Newnans Lake Homesites, surveyed 1938

Compare 1938 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 printed sheets

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.

Fires near this place

228 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 228 fires within 5 miles of Newnans Lake Homesites between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,154 acres in total. 32 started naturally. 16 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
Equipment and vehicle use45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Railroad operations and maintenance39
Natural32
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Debris and open burning17
Arson/incendiarism16
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Recreation and ceremony8
Smoking1
Other causes1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
30 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 1994Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2008Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA/NE 8TH AVE
9 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2020Natural132 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTREATMENT CENTER (01)
6 August 2020Natural8.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHATCHET (01)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alachua County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 19,358 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 19,358 specimens collected within 10 miles of Newnans Lake Homesites between 1806 and 1975: 8,545 Fungi, 8,484 Animalia, 1,096 Protozoa, 996 Plantae, 134 Chromista, 101 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Xylocopa micans Lepeletier, 1841Xylocopa micans Lepeletier, 18411847not recordedGainesville
Specimen of Astragalus L.Astragalus L.1876Abraham P. Garber
Specimen of Corallorrhiza GagnebinCorallorrhiza Gagnebin1876Abraham P. Garber
A photograph of the species Ditrichum pallidum, not of this specimenDitrichum pallidum (Hedw.) Hampe1806C. E. Faxon
A photograph of the species Canthon pilularius, not of this specimenCanthon pilularius (Linnaeus, 1758)1822F. W. WalkerGainesville
A photograph of the species Ilex vomitoria, not of this specimenIlex vomitoria Aiton1826A. P. Garber
A photograph of the species Geomys pinetis, not of this specimenGeomys pinetis Rafinesque, 18171860James LayneGainesville
A photograph of the species Myotis Kaup, not of this specimenMyotis Kaup, 18291860Harley B. ShermanGainesville
A photograph of the species Utricularia subulata, not of this specimenUtricularia subulata L.1873C. E. FaxonGainesville
A photograph of the species Asclepias humistrata, not of this specimenAsclepias humistrata Walter1876A. P. GarberGainesville
A photograph of the species Bignonia capreolata, not of this specimenBignonia capreolata L.1876A. P. Garber
Bumelia microcarpa Small1876A. P. Garber

All 19,358 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Newnans Lake Homesites: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
V. E. Whitehurst & Sons, Inc. - Starvation Hill MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Alachua County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Ruthland1.5 miles21
Copeland Settlement1.8 miles13
Green Grove1.8 miles21
Kreftwood Estates2.0 miles21
Kincaid Hills2.6 miles21
Windsor2.8 miles13
Lakeview Estates3.0 miles21
Lincoln Estates3.3 miles21

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 Q122592098The 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 287718. 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.