Peach Orchard, Florida

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1890 1981

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.

• 1890 USGS Arredondo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1892 USGS Arredondo quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Arredondo quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
• 1954 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Arredondo quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1981 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 233 fires within 5 miles of Peach Orchard between 1992 and 2020, burning about 948 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 8 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:

• Adam
• Archer
• Buckingham West
• Half Moon
• Jonesville
• Kanapaha

Every fire recorded in Alachua County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,829 specimens collected within 10 miles of Peach Orchard between 1860 and 1975: 1,458 Animalia, 624 Protozoa, 601 Fungi, 135 Plantae, 9 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A Chable & W McLane, A. H. Hardistry 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
	Piezobria Forster, 1869	1882	[Not Stated]	Archer
	Satronia tantilla Heinrich, 1926	1882	[Not Stated]	Archer
	Xylonomus Gravenhorst, 1829	1882	[Not Stated]	Archer
	Myotis austroriparius (Rhoads, 1897)	1860	unknown	Gainesville, 10 mi. W
	Agrotis malefida Guenée, 1852	1882	Lugger, O.	Archer
	Aulonothroscus schwarzi Blanchard, 1917	1882	M. Hubbard & Schwarz	Archer
	Elophila Hübner, 1822	1882	A. Koebele	Archer
	Hylephila phyleus (Drury, 1773)	1882	not recorded	Archer
	Sigela penumbrata Hulst, 1896	1882	Koebele	Archer
	Xylophanes tersa Linnaeus, 1771	1882	not recorded	Archer
	Agelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)	1885	M. Martin	FLORIDA: Alachua County; Archer
	Butorides virescens (Linnaeus, 1758)	1885	M. Martin	FLORIDA: Alachua County; Archer

All 2,829 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Peach Orchard: 4 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Alachua County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Peach Orchard in 5 storm reports between 2012 and 2023: 3 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 Alachua County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 288616. 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.

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.

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.