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.
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:
Population over time
2 figuresSilver 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 6,539 | |
| 2020 | 24,846 | +18,307 (+280%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 17 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 Belleview quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Ocala quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1991 USGS Belleview quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
276 since 1992Regional 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 maintenance | 75 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 46 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 46 |
| Debris and open burning | 30 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 25 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 19 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Smoking | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 22 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | MARION/92 PLACE FIRE |
| 16 September 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | SE 85TH LANE(42) |
| 11 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 725 |
| 10 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | MARION/THE DOGWOOD FIRE |
| 8 August 2004 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | MARION/SQUIRREL FIRE |
| 6 August 1997 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 3 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | BAHIA FIRE/ MARION |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canal Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Santos Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Boutwell Constr. Co. - Candler Mine | Sand | Producer | ||
| Loar's Excavating Co. - Loar's Sand Mine | Sand | Unknown | ||
| Margie Wood Trucking, Inc. - Margie Wood Mine | Sand | Unknown | ||
| S & E Contractors, Inc. - Baseline Mine | Sand | Unknown |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Candler | 3.6 miles | 10 | |
| Santos | 3.8 miles | 17 | |
| Belleview | 4.0 miles | 17 | |
| Montague | 4.3 miles | 16 | |
| Huntington | 5.0 miles | 16 | |
| Maricamp | 5.5 miles | 16 | |
| Lake Weir (historical) | 5.8 miles | 10 | |
| Camp Roosevelt | 5.8 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 Shores | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2368142 | 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 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.






