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Rutledge, Florida

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Gainesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32606. The Survey maps it on the Gainesville West quadrangle. It stands 135 feet above sea level.

Rutledge within Alachua County

Then and now

1890 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Rutledge, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Rutledge, surveyed 1890

Compare 1890 against another survey:

On record in Rutledge

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 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

105 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Rutledge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 355 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 7 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 maintenance24
Misuse of fire by a minor19
Equipment and vehicle use18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Debris and open burning13
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
11 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA/ELLIS PARK
1 September 2004Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service945
26 August 1999Natural45 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 July 2011Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWEISS(01)
11 July 2016Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceN.W. 93RD AVE (01)
1 July 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA/ROCK CHURCH FIRE
1 July 1995Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alachua County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 20,996 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 20,996 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rutledge between 1806 and 1975: 8,918 Animalia, 8,737 Fungi, 1,861 Protozoa, 1,195 Plantae, 154 Chromista, 129 Unrecorded, 2 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A B GROBMAN, A CARR and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Xylocopa micans Lepeletier, 1841Xylocopa micans Lepeletier, 18411847not recordedGainesville
Specimen of Astragalus L.Astragalus L.1876Abraham P. Garber
Specimen of Corallorrhiza GagnebinCorallorrhiza Gagnebin1876Abraham P. Garber
A photograph of the species Ditrichum pallidum, not of this specimenDitrichum pallidum (Hedw.) Hampe1806C. E. Faxon
A photograph of the species Canthon pilularius, not of this specimenCanthon pilularius (Linnaeus, 1758)1822F. W. WalkerGainesville
A photograph of the species Ilex vomitoria, not of this specimenIlex vomitoria Aiton1826A. P. Garber
A photograph of the species Ctenium aromaticum, not of this specimenCtenium aromaticum (Walter) Alph.Wood1842F Engel
A photograph of the species Cryptotis parva, not of this specimenCryptotis parva (Say, 1823)1860A. ArataGainesville, 6 mi. NW
A photograph of the species Geomys pinetis, not of this specimenGeomys pinetis Rafinesque, 18171860James LayneGainesville
A photograph of the species Myotis Kaup, not of this specimenMyotis Kaup, 18291860Harley B. ShermanGainesville
A photograph of the species Myotis austroriparius, not of this specimenMyotis austroriparius (Rhoads, 1897)1860unknownGainesville, 10 mi. W
A photograph of the species Podomys floridanus, not of this specimenPodomys floridanus (Chapman, 1889)1860James LayneGainesville, 8 mi NW

All 20,996 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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 Rutledge: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Hole No 118 Clay ProspectClayOccurrence
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Alachua 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
West Park1.0 miles23
West Hills1.1 miles23
Suburban Heights1.4 miles23
Durant Estates1.8 miles23
Shadow Lawn Estates1.8 miles23
Beville Heights1.8 miles23
Wimberly Estates1.8 miles23
Buckingham West2.1 miles23

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 RutledgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q107404420The 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 290092. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.