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Silver Springs Shores, 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 34472. The Survey maps it on the Belleview quadrangle. 24,846 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 95 feet above sea level.

Silver Springs Shores 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 Silver Springs Shores, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Silver Springs Shores, surveyed 1895

Compare 1895 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Silver Springs Shores grew from 6,539 to 24,846 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20106,539
202024,846+18,307 (+280%)

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

276 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 276 fires within 5 miles of Silver Springs Shores between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,028 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 19 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 maintenance75
Equipment and vehicle use46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Debris and open burning30
Misuse of fire by a minor25
Arson/incendiarism19
Natural10
Smoking9
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Recreation and ceremony5
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
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)
11 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service725
10 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMARION/THE DOGWOOD FIRE
8 August 2004Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMARION/SQUIRREL FIRE
6 August 1997Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
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

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Silver Springs Shores: 3 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, 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
Canal PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Santos PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Boutwell Constr. Co. - Candler MineSandProducer
Loar's Excavating Co. - Loar's Sand MineSandUnknown
Margie Wood Trucking, Inc. - Margie Wood MineSandUnknown
S & E Contractors, Inc. - Baseline MineSandUnknown

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
Candler3.6 miles10
Santos3.8 miles17
Belleview4.0 miles17
Montague4.3 miles16
Huntington5.0 miles16
Maricamp5.5 miles16
Lake Weir (historical)5.8 miles10
Camp Roosevelt5.8 miles16

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 ShoresAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2368142The 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 306947. 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.