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Rainbow Springs, Florida

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Dunnellon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34431. The Survey maps it on the Dunnellon quadrangle.

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

Compare 1892 against another survey:

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

255 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 255 fires within 5 miles of Rainbow Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,404 acres in total. 32 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 maintenance61
Debris and open burning51
Equipment and vehicle use32
Natural32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Arson/incendiarism24
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes3
Recreation and ceremony3

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 September 2003Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service2003-08-1096 MARION
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
24 August 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 August 2002Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 August 1993Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 August 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMARION/08-0854

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Rainbow Falls (historical)1.4 miles18
Luddersville2.9 miles17
Rainbow Lakes Estates3.0 miles17
Chatmire3.6 miles18
Rocksprings3.9 miles18
Hoyt4.5 miles17
Dunnellon4.8 miles18
Rainbow Park5.5 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2805167. 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.