Olustee, Florida

The same ground, surveyed 51 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1954 2005

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

• Olustee Battlefieldlisted 1970

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 Valdosta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Olustee quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1981 USGS Lake City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 2005 USGS Olustee quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 179 fires within 5 miles of Olustee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,482 acres in total. 100 started naturally. 20 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:

• Okeafenoke Swamp (historical)
• Manns Spur

Every fire recorded in Baker County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 195 specimens collected within 10 miles of Olustee between 1861 and 1975: 74 Animalia, 61 Plantae, 56 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. & H. Dietrich, A. H. Antonie, A.E. Daugherty 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
	Megastigmus floridanus Milliron, 1949	1929	J. Kirkland	Osceola
	Polyporus hydnoides (Sw.) Fr.	1950	W.A. Campbell
	Libellula axilena Westwood, 1837	1861	A. & H. Dietrich	Osceola National Forest, Ocean Pond Camp
	Gaylussacia nana (A.Gray) Small	1934	L. J. Pessin	Olustee Forest. Plot 58.
	Limodorum parviflorum Nash	1934	L. Pessin	Olustee National Forest.
	Vaccinium arboreum Marshall	1934	L. J. Pessin	Olustee Forest. Sect 18, T3S, R20E.
	Vaccinium stamineum L.	1934	L. Pessin	Olustee Forest. Sect 18, T3S, R20E.
	Calopogon pulchellus (Salisb.) R.Br.	1936	Allan G. Watkins	Olustee Expt'l Compt. A-1,2; Plot 0-65.
	Lyonia fruticosa (Michx.) G.S.Torr.	1936	Allan G. Watkins	Olustee Expt'l. Comp't A-1,2; Plot 0-65.
	Asca von Heyden, 1826	1937	Liefeld, T. A.	Osceola National Forest, Baker Co., FL, U.S.A.
	Pinus elliottii var. elliottii	1937	A. H. Antonie	Olustee
	Pinus palustris Mill.	1937	A. H. Antonie	Olustee

All 195 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Olustee in 10 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 heavy rain, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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 Baker 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 306156. 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.

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.