Tacoma, Florida

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1890 1981

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.

• 1890 USGS Arredondo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1892 USGS Arredondo quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Arredondo quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
• 1954 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Micanopy quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1981 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Tacoma between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,287 acres in total. 13 started naturally. None was 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:

• Kirkwood
• Alackaway Tolofa (historical)
• Micanopy
• Micanopy Junction
• Evinston
• Rocky Point

Every fire recorded in Alachua County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 15,439 specimens collected within 10 miles of Tacoma between 1847 and 1975: 7,303 Animalia, 6,375 Fungi, 1,031 Protozoa, 542 Plantae, 114 Chromista, 72 Unrecorded, 2 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A B GROBMAN, 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
	Xylocopa micans Lepeletier, 1841	1847	not recorded	Gainesville
	Hypericum suffruticosum P.B.Adams & N.Robson	1876	Abram Paschal Garber	Gainesville
	Poria alabamae (Berk. & Cooke) Cooke	1887	Calkins	Florida
	Geomys pinetis Rafinesque, 1817	1860	James Layne	Gainesville
	Myotis Kaup, 1829	1860	Harley B. Sherman	Gainesville
	Utricularia subulata L.	1873	C. E. Faxon	Gainesville
	Asclepias humistrata Walter	1876	A. P. Garber	Gainesville
	Corallorhiza wisteriana Conrad	1876	A. P. Garber	Gainesville
	Croton argyranthemus Michx.	1876	A. P. Garber	Gainesville
	Croton glandulosus var. glandulosus	1876	A. P. Garber	Gainesville
	Euphorbia cordifolia Elliott	1876	A. P. Garber	Gainesville
	Tillandsia recurvata (L.) L.	1876	A. P. Garber	Gainesville.

All 15,439 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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295666. 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.