Rainbow Lakes Estates, Florida

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1892 1991

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.

• 1892 USGS Dunnellon quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Dunnellon quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1954 USGS Dunnellon quadrangle1:62500
• 1954 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1954 USGS Romeo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
• 1978 USGS Ocala quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1991 USGS Romeo quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 284 fires within 5 miles of Rainbow Lakes Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,237 acres in total. 83 started naturally. 30 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:

• Rainbow Springs
• Hoyt
• Luddersville
• Rainbow Falls (historical)
• Romeo
• Chatmire

Every fire recorded in Marion 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 303887. 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.