Shenks, Florida

The same ground, surveyed 50 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1941 1991

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.

• 1941 USGS Starke quadrangle1:62500
• 1948 USGS Starke quadrangle1:50000
• 1949 USGS Starke quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1949 USGS Waldo quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1954 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
• 1981 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1991 USGS Waldo quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 255 fires within 5 miles of Shenks between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,760 acres in total. 68 started naturally. 17 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Waldo
• Earleton
• Lake Alto Estates
• Santa Fe Beach
• Orange Heights
• Campville

Every fire recorded in Alachua County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,343 specimens collected within 10 miles of Shenks between 1850 and 1975: 652 Animalia, 576 Fungi, 54 Plantae, 41 Protozoa, 11 Chromista, 9 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. A. Arata, A. Laessle, A. S. Rhoads 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Periconia pycnospora Fresen.	1899	von Noszky, H.	Earleton, Fla. [Florida]
	Sorosporium everhartii Ellis & Galloway	1900	Hume, H. Harold	Orange Heights
	Sphacelotheca nealii (Ellis & F.W.Anderson) G.P.Clinton	1900	H. Harold Hume	Orange Heights
	Burmannia biflora L.	1850	H Gillman
	Ctenium aromaticum (Walter) Alph.Wood	1850	H Gillman
	Cyperus croceus Vahl	1850	H Gillman
	Cyperus lecontei Torr. ex Steud.	1850	H Gillman
	Cyperus retrorsus Chapm.	1850	H Gillman
	Fimbristylis vahlii (Lam.) Link	1850	H Gillman
	Hypericum myrtifolium Lam.	1850	H Gillman
	Saccharum alopecuroides (L.) Nutt.	1850	H Gillman
	Sida acuta Burm.fil.	1850	H Gillman

All 1,343 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295622. 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.