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Wacahoota, Florida

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Micanopy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32608. The Survey maps it on the Arredondo quadrangle.

Wacahoota within Alachua County

Then and now

1890 to 1981

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.

Topographic sheet of Wacahoota, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Wacahoota, surveyed 1890

Compare 1890 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

125 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Wacahoota between 1992 and 2020, burning about 358 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 5 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 maintenance32
Debris and open burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Misuse of fire by a minor18
Equipment and vehicle use14
Natural10
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
25 September 1992Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 August 1997Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2005-08-0502 /ALACHUA
26 July 2002Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 July 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 July 1994Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service47TH AVE (1)
4 June 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida 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 18,590 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 18,590 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wacahoota between 1822 and 1975: 8,278 Animalia, 7,470 Fungi, 1,640 Protozoa, 970 Plantae, 131 Chromista, 99 Unrecorded, 2 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A B GROBMAN, A CARR 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 Xylocopa micans Lepeletier, 1841Xylocopa micans Lepeletier, 18411847not recordedGainesville
Specimen of Astragalus L.Astragalus L.1876Abraham P. Garber
Specimen of Corallorrhiza GagnebinCorallorrhiza Gagnebin1876Abraham P. Garber
A photograph of the species Canthon pilularius, not of this specimenCanthon pilularius (Linnaeus, 1758)1822F. W. WalkerGainesville
A photograph of the species Geomys pinetis, not of this specimenGeomys pinetis Rafinesque, 18171860James LayneGainesville
A photograph of the species Myotis Kaup, not of this specimenMyotis Kaup, 18291860Harley B. ShermanGainesville
A photograph of the species Myotis austroriparius, not of this specimenMyotis austroriparius (Rhoads, 1897)1860unknownGainesville, 10 mi. W
A photograph of the species Utricularia subulata, not of this specimenUtricularia subulata L.1873C. E. FaxonGainesville
A photograph of the species Asclepias humistrata, not of this specimenAsclepias humistrata Walter1876A. P. GarberGainesville
A photograph of the species Corallorhiza wisteriana, not of this specimenCorallorhiza wisteriana Conrad1876A. P. GarberGainesville
A photograph of the species Croton argyranthemus, not of this specimenCroton argyranthemus Michx.1876A. P. GarberGainesville
A photograph of the species Croton glandulosus, not of this specimenCroton glandulosus var. glandulosus1876A. P. GarberGainesville

All 18,590 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wacahoota in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
June 2021Thunderstorm WindWacahoota-Large trees, a chicken coop and a woodshed were damaged by thunderstorm winds at SW 144th Lane near State Road 121.
May 2013HailWacahoota-Half inch to penny size hail was reported on Wacahoota.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindWacahoota-Large trees were blown down at SW 137th Avenue and SW Williston Road.
December 2012Thunderstorm WindWacahoota-Large trees and large tree limbs were blown down near the intersection of Williston and Wacahoota Roads in southern Gainesville.
June 1998HailWacahoota-no account filed

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
Clinch1.2 miles19
Kanapaha3.3 miles19
Arredondo3.5 miles19
Kirkwood3.5 miles19
Arredondo Estates3.6 miles19
Riceland3.7 miles19
Rocky Point3.8 miles19
Malore Gardens4.0 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 294961. 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.

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.