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Pedro, Florida

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Belleview census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34491. The Survey maps it on the Oxford quadrangle.

Pedro within Marion County

Then and now

1893 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pedro, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Pedro, surveyed 1893

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

159 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 159 fires within 5 miles of Pedro between 1992 and 2020, burning about 899 acres in total. 2 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 maintenance44
Debris and open burning32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Arson/incendiarism24
Equipment and vehicle use17
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Fireworks1
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 July 2001Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 July 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest Service23RD TER RD (42)
9 June 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 June 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service36 FIRE/MARION/NOV & SUPP
4 June 2015Arson/incendiarism10 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSW 153RD PL (42)
4 June 2001Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 June 2016Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSW 37TH TERRACE RD(42)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion 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 Pedro: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Pedro MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bedrock Resources - S.R. 42 MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Boutwell Limerock Mining - C.R. 484 MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pedro in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 1 hail, 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2003LightningPedro1 hurt, $80,000no account filed
April 2020Thunderstorm WindPedro-A construction trailer was blown across Interstate 75 at the Ocala Weigh Station near Belleview. The time of damage was based on radar data.
May 1999HailPedro-no account filed

Every storm 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
Danks Corner2.0 miles17
Monroes Corner3.0 miles17
Belleview Heights3.8 miles17
Marion Oaks3.8 miles16
Ocala Sun RV Resort4.1 miles16
Dallas4.2 miles18
Summerfield4.9 miles17
Belleview5.9 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 294884. 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.

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.