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Traxler, 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. The Survey maps it on the High Springs quadrangle.

Traxler 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 Traxler, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Traxler, 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

105 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Traxler between 1992 and 2017, burning about 464 acres in total. 4 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.

Reported cause Fires
Railroad operations and maintenance34
Debris and open burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use10
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Natural4
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
22 August 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceRANCH CLUB/ALACHUA
31 July 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service630
2 July 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceO'LENO (12)
1 July 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA/173RD. STREET FIRE
4 June 1998Railroad operations and maintenance5.6 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alachua County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 976 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 976 specimens collected within 10 miles of Traxler between 1873 and 1975: 484 Animalia, 338 Fungi, 91 Plantae, 26 Unrecorded, 22 Protozoa, 15 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
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 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 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
A photograph of the species Cyanocitta cristata, not of this specimenCyanocitta cristata cristata (Linnaeus, 1758)1917Collector(s): Marsden Treutlen CleckleyHigh Springs
A photograph of the species Melanerpes carolinus, not of this specimenMelanerpes carolinus (Linnaeus, 1758)1917Simpson, J JHigh Springs
A photograph of the species Penstemon australis, not of this specimenPenstemon australis subsp. australis1917F. W. PennellHigh Springs

All 976 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 Traxler: 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

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Traxler in 2 storm reports between 2020 and 2022: 1 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2022Thunderstorm WindTraxler$1,000Four trees were blown down on Old Bellamy Road about 4 miles SSE of Oleno State Park. The cost of damage was unknown but estimated for inclusion in Storm Data.
September 2020Heavy RainTraxler-A public weather station measured 3.69 inches from 6:45 pm to 8:30 pm.

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
San Francisco Potano (historical)1.7 miles10
Spring Hill2.7 miles12
Bland3.1 miles8
High Springs4.3 miles12
Newnansville5.4 miles11
Hasan5.5 miles11
Santa Fe5.9 miles8
Hainesworth6.2 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295676. 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.