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Spring Hill, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the High Springs-Alachua census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32615. It stands on Spring Hill. The Survey maps it on the High Springs quadrangle.

Spring Hill within Alachua County

Then and now

1954 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 27 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Spring Hill, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Spring Hill, surveyed 1954

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

141 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Spring Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 794 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 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 maintenance43
Debris and open burning35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Equipment and vehicle use14
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
7 August 1997Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA/HILLSIDE
24 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA/112TH BLVD
22 August 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceRANCH CLUB/ALACHUA
31 July 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service630
19 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2010-08-0481/ALACHUA
1 July 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA/173RD. STREET FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alachua County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 1,517 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,517 specimens collected within 10 miles of Spring Hill between 1860 and 1975: 701 Animalia, 631 Fungi, 116 Plantae, 28 Unrecorded, 25 Protozoa, 16 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Gholson Jr., A. H. Smith, A. Martinez 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks.Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks.1896Edmon WestGainesville
A photograph of the species Podomys floridanus, not of this specimenPodomys floridanus (Chapman, 1889)1860James LayneGainesville, 8 mi NW
Animalia1873M. RobertsMouth of New R. (Aluchua/Bradford/Union Co. line)
Aves1897not recordedAlachua Co
A photograph of the species Chordodes puerilis, not of this specimenChordodes puerilis Montgomery, 18981906E. AndersonHigh Springs
A photograph of the species Elsinoe fawcettii, not of this specimenElsinoe fawcettii Bitanc. & Jenkins1907RolfsAlachua
A photograph of the species Fusicladium effusum, not of this specimenFusicladium effusum G.Winter1908Fawcett? H. S.Santa Fe
A photograph of the species Chrysops univittatus, not of this specimenChrysops univittatus Macquart, 18551911W. D. AppelSanta Fe
A photograph of the species Stereum complicatum, not of this specimenStereum complicatum (Fr.) Fr.1914ConwayGainesville, San Falasco Hammock,10 miles NW of Gainesville; On hardwood
A photograph of the species Coleosporium elephantopodis, not of this specimenColeosporium elephantopodis Thüm., 18781915G. G. HedgcockGainesville
A photograph of the species Coleosporium helianthi, not of this specimenColeosporium helianthi (Schwein.) Arthur1916G. G. HedgcockGainesville
A photograph of the species Grus canadensis, not of this specimenGrus canadensis pratensis F.A.A.Meyer, 17941916J. J. SimpsonHigh Springs, near

All 1,517 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Spring Hill: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
High Springs MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
North Fla. Limerock - High SprgsLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Alachua County

Storms near this place

4 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spring Hill in 4 storm reports between 2016 and 2024: 3 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
January 2024Thunderstorm WindSpring Hill-A large tree was blown down and blocked NW 190th Avenue in High Springs. The time of damage was based on radar data.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindSpring Hill-A large tree fell across CR 235A blocking both lanes near the intersection with NW 178th Ave. Photo was taken by Alachua Police. Time was estimated by radar.
August 2019Heavy RainSpring Hill-A public station measured 3.06 inches of rainfall in the past 90 minutes.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindSpring Hill-A large tree was blown down near the intersection of NW 190th Avenue and NW 184th Terrace.

Every storm recorded in Alachua 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
Traxler2.7 miles12
Newnansville3.2 miles11
High Springs3.7 miles12
San Francisco Potano (historical)4.1 miles10
Burnetts Lake4.1 miles11
Arno4.4 miles12
Hainesworth4.5 miles11
Bland5.0 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295641. 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.

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.