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Raleigh, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Williston-Bronson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32696. The Survey maps it on the Williston quadrangle. 357 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 69 feet above sea level.

Raleigh within Levy County

Then and now

1895 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Raleigh, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Raleigh, surveyed 1895

Compare 1895 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Raleigh fell from 373 to 357 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010373
2020357-16 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

157 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 157 fires within 5 miles of Raleigh between 1992 and 2020, burning about 946 acres in total. 11 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
Debris and open burning56
Railroad operations and maintenance45
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking2
Other causes2
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
8 September 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLEVY/1113 WEST LINE FIRE
8 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2002Debris and open burning5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceNE 38TH PL (38)
30 July 2008Other causesunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceLEVY/1111
25 July 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Levy County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Raleigh: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
V.E. Whitehurst & Sons - Raleigh QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Limestone Quarry No ThreeStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Limestone Quarry Number 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Raleigh QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Williston QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Levy County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Raleigh in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2021: 2 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
May 2011Thunderstorm WindRaleigh$18,000The fire department reported that there were fifteen to twenty large oak and pine trees blown down near the intersection of U.S. Highway 41 and County Road 335.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindRaleigh$1,000Tree down blocking CR 335 near NE 160th Ave.

Every storm recorded in Levy 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
Hodgson2.7 miles15
Williston3.9 miles15
Merediths7.7 miles10
Montbrook7.9 miles16
Williston Highlands8.0 miles11
Bronson9.3 miles10
Morriston11.1 miles16
Beetree Ford17.5 miles11

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 RaleighAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6098496The 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 289449. 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.