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Santos, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Ocala census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34480. The Survey maps it on the Belleview quadrangle.

Santos within Marion County

Then and now

1895 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Santos, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Santos, surveyed 1895

Compare 1895 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

192 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 192 fires within 5 miles of Santos between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,604 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 10 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 maintenance51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Debris and open burning23
Misuse of fire by a minor23
Equipment and vehicle use21
Arson/incendiarism10
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking5
Natural4
Fireworks1
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
9 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMARION/92 PLACE FIRE
16 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution8.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSE 85TH LANE(42)
10 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMARION/THE DOGWOOD FIRE
9 August 2014Debris and open burning1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBASELINE(42)
8 August 2004Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMARION/SQUIRREL FIRE
3 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBAHIA FIRE/ MARION

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Santos: 4 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Sand. 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
Boutwell Limerock Mining - C.R. 484 MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Counts Constr. - Pansey Britt MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Margie Wood Trucking, Inc. - Margie Wood MineSandUnknown
S & E Contractors, Inc. - Baseline MineSandUnknown
Britt MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Canal PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Santos PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Santos in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
September 2016Thunderstorm WindSantos$1,000A few trees were blown down between Ocala and Belleview. The cost of damage was unknown but estimated for the event to be included in Storm Data. The time of damage was based on radar.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindSantos$500A tree was blown down across the southbound lane of SW 36th Avenue. The time of damage was based on radar data. The cost of damage was unknown, but it was estimated for the inclusion of the event in Storm Data.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindSantos-Marion County Dispatch reported a tree was blown down into power lines in the Juniper Court area.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindSantos-Thunderstorm wind downed trees and power lines near SE 80th and SE 42nd Streets SSE of Ocala and north of Belleview. The time of damage was based on radar.
June 2017Heavy RainSantos-A spotter measured 4.62 inches in less than 30 minutes.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindSantos-A Post Office employee reported a large tree fell on their house.

Every storm 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
Camp Roosevelt2.8 miles16
Montague3.0 miles16
Maricamp3.7 miles16
Silver Springs Shores3.8 miles17
Belleview4.1 miles17
Shady4.1 miles16
Huntington4.5 miles16
Ocala5.9 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 Q122563585The 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 290665. 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.