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Rolling Hills, 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 Dunnellon SE quadrangle.

Rolling Hills 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 Rolling Hills, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Rolling Hills, 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

223 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 223 fires within 5 miles of Rolling Hills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 999 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 16 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 burning63
Railroad operations and maintenance40
Equipment and vehicle use32
Natural28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Arson/incendiarism16
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
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
25 September 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSW 30TH LN (42)
24 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service101 AVE LANE(42)
29 August 1999Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2004Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2004-08-0703MARION
21 August 2002Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 August 1993Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2005-08-0497/MARION

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

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 Rolling Hills: 1 producer. 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

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
Leroy (historical)1.2 miles17
Rocksprings2.6 miles18
York2.9 miles17
Rolling Ranches3.6 miles17
Rainbow Park4.0 miles17
Cotton Plant4.4 miles17
On Top of the World4.6 miles17
Hoyt4.7 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 303885. 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.