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Rainbow Park, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Fellowship census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34481. The Survey maps it on the Cotton Plant quadrangle. 1,672 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 79 feet above sea level.

Rainbow Park within Marion County

Then and now

1892 to 1991

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.

Topographic sheet of Rainbow Park, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Rainbow Park, surveyed 1892

Compare 1892 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

327 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 327 fires within 5 miles of Rainbow Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,752 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 26 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 burning87
Railroad operations and maintenance80
Equipment and vehicle use56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Arson/incendiarism26
Natural23
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony4
Other causes2
Smoking1

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
26 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenance75 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSW 30TH LN (42)
24 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2004-08-0710/LAKE TROPICANA
1 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance25 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 August 1993Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 August 1999Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion 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 Rainbow Park: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Counts Constr. - 140th Ave. MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Loncala Phosphate - Minehead PlantLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working 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
Hoyt1.2 miles17
Cotton Plant3.1 miles17
Leroy (historical)3.3 miles17
Early Bird3.4 miles17
Rocksprings3.4 miles18
Luddersville3.6 miles17
Rolling Hills4.0 miles17
York4.1 miles17

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Rainbow ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q106725969The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 303886. 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.