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Pinesville, Florida

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Newberry-Archer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32618. The Survey maps it on the Archer quadrangle.

Pinesville within Alachua County

Then and now

1954 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 27 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pinesville, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Pinesville, surveyed 1954

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

200 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 200 fires within 5 miles of Pinesville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 651 acres in total. 12 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 maintenance68
Debris and open burning40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Natural12
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Equipment and vehicle use11
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes2
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2018Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service2018-08-0288(01)
9 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service930
5 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA/HAYFIELD FIRE/0894
14 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceFLYING 10/1 (1)
9 August 2006Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA/TWO TREE FIRE
31 August 2003Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service2003-08-1065
26 August 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 July 1998Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alachua County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 2,835 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,835 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pinesville between 1860 and 1975: 1,312 Animalia, 740 Fungi, 632 Protozoa, 130 Plantae, 12 Unrecorded, 9 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Piezobria Forster, 1869Piezobria Forster, 18691882[Not Stated]Archer
Specimen of Satronia tantilla Heinrich, 1926Satronia tantilla Heinrich, 19261882[Not Stated]Archer
Specimen of Xylonomus Gravenhorst, 1829Xylonomus Gravenhorst, 18291882[Not Stated]Archer
A photograph of the species Myotis austroriparius, not of this specimenMyotis austroriparius (Rhoads, 1897)1860unknownGainesville, 10 mi. W
A photograph of the species Agrotis malefida, not of this specimenAgrotis malefida Guenée, 18521882Lugger, O.Archer
A photograph of the species Aulonothroscus schwarzi, not of this specimenAulonothroscus schwarzi Blanchard, 19171882M. Hubbard & SchwarzArcher
A photograph of the species Elophila Hübner, not of this specimenElophila Hübner, 18221882A. KoebeleArcher
A photograph of the species Hylephila phyleus, not of this specimenHylephila phyleus (Drury, 1773)1882not recordedArcher
A photograph of the species Sigela penumbrata, not of this specimenSigela penumbrata Hulst, 18961882KoebeleArcher
A photograph of the species Xylophanes tersa, not of this specimenXylophanes tersa Linnaeus, 17711882not recordedArcher
A photograph of the species Agelaius phoeniceus, not of this specimenAgelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1885M. MartinFLORIDA: Alachua County; Archer
A photograph of the species Butorides virescens, not of this specimenButorides virescens (Linnaeus, 1758)1885M. MartinFLORIDA: Alachua County; Archer

All 2,835 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pinesville: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
V. E. Whitehurst & Sons, Inc. - Archer MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Alachua 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
Half Moon2.7 miles10
Peach Orchard3.0 miles19
Archer4.0 miles10
Jonesville4.6 miles11
Kanapaha5.4 miles19
Shannon Wood5.5 miles23
Arredondo Estates5.8 miles19
Newberry6.0 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 294889. 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.