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Ocala Waterway, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Belleview census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34476. The Survey maps it on the Shady quadrangle.

Ocala Waterway 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 Waterway, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Ocala Waterway, surveyed 1895

Compare 1895 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

168 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 168 fires within 5 miles of Ocala Waterway between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,197 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 30 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
Railroad operations and maintenance37
Arson/incendiarism30
Equipment and vehicle use30
Debris and open burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Natural15
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Smoking2
Fireworks1

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
9 August 2014Debris and open burning1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBASELINE(42)
28 August 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMARION OAKS PASS
24 August 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMARION/70TH
18 August 2001Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 August 1997Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 July 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 July 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMARION/475-A FIRE
29 July 2001Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 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 Waterway: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Britt MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Counts Constr. - Pansey Britt MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

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
Shady2.2 miles16
Ross Prairie2.9 miles16
Ocala Sun RV Resort3.1 miles16
On Top of the World3.7 miles17
Saddle Oak Club4.1 miles17
Bahia Oaks4.2 miles17
Marion Oaks4.2 miles16
Monroes Corner4.9 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 Q122543573The 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 303881. 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.