BlockSilver Springs, Florida
16 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 34488. The Survey maps it on the Ocala East quadrangle. 2,844 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Then and now
1895 to 1991The 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.
Compare 1895 against another survey:
On record in Silver Springs
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 2 records
T. W. Randall Houselisted 1995
Silver Springslisted 2019
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1895 USGS Ocala quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
- 1954 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Ocala East quadrangle1:24000
- 1978 USGS Ocala quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1991 USGS Ocala East quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
151 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Silver Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 482 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 15 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 maintenance | 31 |
| Natural | 25 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 22 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 15 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 15 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | BONFIRE(42) |
| 25 August 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 23 August 2016 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | THE 315(42) |
| 9 July 2016 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | WATER TREATMENT(42) |
| 4 July 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 2 July 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | National Forests in Florida | SHARPS FERRY |
| 12 July 1993 | Natural | 20 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 11 July 2015 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | INDIAN LAKE STATE FOREST (42) |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Silver Springs: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S & E Contractors, Inc. - Dr. Slaughter Fish Mine | Clay | Unknown |
Storms near this place
2 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Silver Springs in 2 storm reports in 1994: 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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.
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Huntington | 3.2 miles | 16 | |
| Oak | 3.9 miles | 17 | |
| Maricamp | 4.2 miles | 16 | |
| Nubys Corner | 4.4 miles | 9 | |
| Montague | 4.7 miles | 16 | |
| Ocala | 4.8 miles | 17 | |
| Grahamsville | 5.0 miles | 9 | |
| Ocala Highlands Estates | 5.3 miles | 16 |
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 Silver Springs | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7516348 | The 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 291137. 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.