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.
Then and now
1954 to 1981The 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 sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 12 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.
- 1954 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS High Springs quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1981 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
105 since 1992Regional 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 maintenance | 34 |
| Debris and open burning | 22 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 August 1997 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 6 August 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | ALACHUA/HILLSIDE |
| 24 August 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 22 August 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | RANCH CLUB/ALACHUA |
| 31 July 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 630 |
| 2 July 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | O'LENO (12) |
| 1 July 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | ALACHUA/173RD. STREET FIRE |
| 4 June 1998 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 5.6 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 976 shownRegional 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks. | 1896 | Edmon West | Gainesville |
| Animalia | 1873 | M. Roberts | Mouth of New R. (Aluchua/Bradford/Union Co. line) | |
| Aves | 1897 | not recorded | Alachua Co | |
![]() | Chordodes puerilis Montgomery, 1898 | 1906 | E. Anderson | High Springs |
![]() | Fusicladium effusum G.Winter | 1908 | Fawcett? H. S. | Santa Fe |
![]() | Chrysops univittatus Macquart, 1855 | 1911 | W. D. Appel | Santa Fe |
![]() | Coleosporium elephantopodis Thüm., 1878 | 1915 | G. G. Hedgcock | Gainesville |
![]() | Coleosporium helianthi (Schwein.) Arthur | 1916 | G. G. Hedgcock | Gainesville |
![]() | Grus canadensis pratensis F.A.A.Meyer, 1794 | 1916 | J. J. Simpson | High Springs, near |
![]() | Cyanocitta cristata cristata (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1917 | Collector(s): Marsden Treutlen Cleckley | High Springs |
![]() | Melanerpes carolinus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1917 | Simpson, J J | High Springs |
![]() | Penstemon australis subsp. australis | 1917 | F. W. Pennell | High Springs |
All 976 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| High Springs Mine | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| North Fla. Limerock - High Sprgs | Limestone, General | Producer | Limestone |
Storms near this place
2 since 2020Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Traxler | $1,000 | Four 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 2020 | Heavy Rain | Traxler | - | A public weather station measured 3.69 inches from 6:45 pm to 8:30 pm. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Francisco Potano (historical) | 1.7 miles | 10 | |
| Spring Hill | 2.7 miles | 12 | |
| Bland | 3.1 miles | 8 | |
| High Springs | 4.3 miles | 12 | |
| Newnansville | 5.4 miles | 11 | |
| Hasan | 5.5 miles | 11 | |
| Santa Fe | 5.9 miles | 8 | |
| Hainesworth | 6.2 miles | 11 |
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.














