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Newnansville, Florida

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the High Springs-Alachua census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32615. The Survey maps it on the Alachua quadrangle.

Newnansville within Alachua County

Then and now

1954 to 1981

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.

Topographic sheet of Newnansville, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Newnansville, surveyed 1954

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

137 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Newnansville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 630 acres in total. 6 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
Debris and open burning47
Railroad operations and maintenance31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural6
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Arson/incendiarism4
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 1997Smokingunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA/112TH BLVD
22 August 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceRANCH CLUB/ALACHUA
31 July 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service630
1 July 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA/173RD. STREET FIRE
3 June 2002Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alachua County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 2,611 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,611 specimens collected within 10 miles of Newnansville between 1842 and 1975: 1,137 Animalia, 945 Fungi, 239 Protozoa, 233 Plantae, 32 Unrecorded, 25 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A W Chapman, A. Gholson Jr., 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks.Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks.1896Edmon WestGainesville
A photograph of the species Ctenium aromaticum, not of this specimenCtenium aromaticum (Walter) Alph.Wood1842F Engel
A photograph of the species Cryptotis parva, not of this specimenCryptotis parva (Say, 1823)1860A. ArataGainesville, 6 mi. NW
A photograph of the species Podomys floridanus, not of this specimenPodomys floridanus (Chapman, 1889)1860James LayneGainesville, 8 mi NW
Animalia1873M. RobertsMouth of New R. (Aluchua/Bradford/Union Co. line)
A photograph of the species Paspalum praecox, not of this specimenPaspalum praecox Walter1889unknown
A photograph of the species Rottboellia campestris, not of this specimenRottboellia campestris Nutt.1889A W Chapman
Aves1897not recordedAlachua Co
A photograph of the species Chordodes puerilis, not of this specimenChordodes puerilis Montgomery, 18981906E. AndersonHigh Springs
A photograph of the species Elsinoe fawcettii, not of this specimenElsinoe fawcettii Bitanc. & Jenkins1907RolfsAlachua
A photograph of the species Peziza coccinea, not of this specimenPeziza coccinea Huds.1907Dr. BeutanGainesville, Devil's Millhopper; Found on cone on dead root
A photograph of the species Corvus brachyrhynchos, not of this specimenCorvus brachyrhynchos pascuus Coues, 18991908Oscar E. Baynard

All 2,611 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 Newnansville: 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
Alachua Co Public Works - Kirby 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
Burnetts Lake1.5 miles11
Hainesworth1.9 miles11
Spring Hill3.2 miles12
Hague3.9 miles11
Hasan4.0 miles11
La Crosse4.5 miles11
Alachua4.8 miles11
Arno4.9 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 294396. 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.