BlockBefore

Rolling Ranches, 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 34432. The Survey maps it on the Dunnellon SE quadrangle.

Rolling Ranches 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 Ranches, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Rolling Ranches, 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

136 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Rolling Ranches between 1992 and 2020, burning about 978 acres in total. 34 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
Natural34
Debris and open burning30
Railroad operations and maintenance22
Equipment and vehicle use17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1

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
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
17 August 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMARION/08-0854
17 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2005-08-0497/MARION
16 August 2018Natural17 acresFlorida Forest Service89TH ST (42)
1 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 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 Rolling Ranches: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, Free, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
Hard Rock DebrisPhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, FreeProspect1975
Hardrock DepositPhosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Fluorine-FluoriteProspect1880

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
Rolling Hills3.6 miles17
Rocksprings4.1 miles18
On Top of the World4.5 miles17
Leroy (historical)4.8 miles17
Ross Prairie5.2 miles16
Rainbow Falls (historical)5.6 miles18
Chatmire5.8 miles18
York6.3 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.

Wikidata item Q122560948The 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 303884. 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.