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On Top of the World, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Fellowship census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34481. The Survey maps it on the Dunnellon SE quadrangle. 12,668 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 69 feet above sea level.

On Top of the World within Marion County

Then and now

1892 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of On Top of the World, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of On Top of the World, surveyed 1892

Compare 1892 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

171 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 171 fires within 5 miles of On Top of the World between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,550 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 24 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 maintenance32
Equipment and vehicle use31
Debris and open burning28
Natural27
Arson/incendiarism24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks1
Smoking1

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
5 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresFlorida Forest Service2003-08-1071
24 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 August 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMARION OAKS PASS
26 August 2004Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2004-08-0703MARION
24 August 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMARION/70TH
19 August 2001Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 August 2018Natural17 acresFlorida Forest Service89TH ST (42)
13 August 1997Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Ross Prairie0.9 miles16
Ocala Waterway3.7 miles16
Bahia Oaks4.0 miles17
Saddle Oak Club4.1 miles17
Rolling Ranches4.5 miles17
Rolling Hills4.6 miles17
Shady5.0 miles16
Leroy (historical)5.1 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.

Wikipedia article on On Top of the WorldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q106725954The 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 2805185. 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.