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Ocala Thoroughbred Acres, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Ocala census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34474. The Survey maps it on the Ocala West quadrangle.

Ocala Thoroughbred Acres within Marion County

Then and now

1895 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ocala Thoroughbred Acres, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Ocala Thoroughbred Acres, surveyed 1895

Compare 1895 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

87 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Ocala Thoroughbred Acres between 1993 and 2019, burning about 645 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 7 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 burning23
Railroad operations and maintenance20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use11
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
24 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use12 acresFlorida Forest ServiceNW 44TH AVE (42)
24 August 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMARION/70TH
13 August 1997Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMARION/SECO FIRE
29 July 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMARION/475-A FIRE
20 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWINDING OAKS FARMS (42)
9 June 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 June 2001Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Ocala Thoroughbred Acres: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Castro PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Number 8 MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Marion 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
Martel1.0 miles17
Sherman Oaks1.4 miles17
Ocala Ridge2.1 miles17
Mount Olive3.0 miles17
York3.4 miles17
Bahia Oaks3.5 miles17
Saddle Oak Club3.5 miles17
Cotton Plant4.0 miles17

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 Q122571134The 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 304906. 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.

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.