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Pineola, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Inverness census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34436. The Survey maps it on the Nobleton quadrangle.

Pineola within Citrus County

Then and now

1954 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 25 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pineola, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Pineola, surveyed 1954

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

133 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Pineola between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,700 acres in total. 7 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.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning44
Railroad operations and maintenance25
Equipment and vehicle use19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism8
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Natural7
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
15 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service60/HAY BALE FIRE 0629
13 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 August 1996Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 August 2000Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 August 2005Debris and open burning8.0 acresFlorida Forest Service60/PLANTATION FIRE 0592
1 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceDIRT BIKE (09)
29 July 1996Railroad operations and maintenance8.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 July 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Citrus County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Pineola: 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fullers Earth, 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
Storey MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed Fullers Earth ProspectFullers EarthOccurrence

Every working recorded in Citrus County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pineola in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2016: 1 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2016Thunderstorm WindPineola$15,000Local law enforcement reported 5 large trees down. The trees were about 18-24 inches in diameter. One tree fell on to a vehicle and 2 others fell on to an apartment building.
June 2014HailPineola-The public reported quarter size hail near CR 48 and the Withalacoochee River.

Every storm recorded in Citrus 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
Hooper1.3 miles14
Jumeau3.2 miles14
Floral City4.4 miles14
Catawba5.5 miles15
Landrum7.5 miles25
Inverness10.6 miles24
Big Hammock (historical)12.1 miles25
Sugarmill Woods12.7 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295542. 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.