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Orange Home, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Wildwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34785. The Survey maps it on the Leesburg West quadrangle.

Orange Home within Sumter County

Then and now

1955 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 24 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Orange Home, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Orange Home, surveyed 1955

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Orange Home between 1992 and 2018, burning about 483 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 6 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 maintenance15
Equipment and vehicle use14
Debris and open burning12
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Smoking1
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
25 September 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHOBO FIRE 1129
7 July 2004Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceBLUE STREAK/0645
20 July 1996Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 July 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service60/HIGHWAY FIRE/0889
19 July 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 July 1992Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 July 1997Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Orange Home: 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand, 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
Dixie Lime and Stone Co. - Central MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Hewitt Contracting Company, Inc. - Hewitt MineSandUnknown
Logan Sitework Contractiors, Inc. - Logan MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Sumter 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
Bamboo1.7 miles14
Adamsville2.4 miles19
Monarch2.8 miles19
Wildwood3.4 miles19
Coleman4.4 miles19
Moreland Park4.8 miles18
Middleton5.7 miles15
Cherry Lake6.0 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 288209. 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.