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Orange Springs, Florida

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Fort McCoy-Anthony census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32134. It stands on Orange Creek. The Survey maps it on the Keuka quadrangle. It stands 59 feet above sea level.

Orange Springs within Marion County

Then and now

1915 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 78 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 Springs, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Orange Springs, surveyed 1915

Compare 1915 against another survey:

On record in Orange Springs

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 24 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

221 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 221 fires within 5 miles of Orange Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,103 acres in total. 69 started naturally. 18 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
Natural69
Debris and open burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Equipment and vehicle use24
Arson/incendiarism18
Railroad operations and maintenance16
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Other causes5
Recreation and ceremony3
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
22 September 2014Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceKENWOOD DRIVE (54)
21 September 1997Arson/incendiarism3.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePUTNAM/DEAD-END FIRE
8 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 August 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 August 1995Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 August 2020Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceNW 220TH ST (42)

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
Fort Brook Landing2.1 miles24
Hog Valley2.8 miles9
Bay Lake4.4 miles9
Tobacco Patch Landing5.3 miles9
Eureka9.5 miles10
Fort McCoy9.8 miles10
Citra10.9 miles17
Lakeside Travel Park12.2 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 Orange SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7099724The 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 306167. 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.