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.
Then and now
1890 to 1981The 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.


Compare 1890 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 19 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.
- 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 Arredondo quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1981 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
125 since 1992Regional 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 maintenance | 32 |
| Debris and open burning | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 18 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 10 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 23 August 1997 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 4.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 21 August 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 2005-08-0502 /ALACHUA |
| 26 July 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 13 July 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 11 July 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 8 June 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 47TH AVE (1) |
| 4 June 1994 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 18,590 shownRegional 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Xylocopa micans Lepeletier, 1841 | 1847 | not recorded | Gainesville |
![]() | Astragalus L. | 1876 | Abraham P. Garber | |
![]() | Corallorrhiza Gagnebin | 1876 | Abraham P. Garber | |
![]() | Canthon pilularius (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1822 | F. W. Walker | Gainesville |
![]() | Geomys pinetis Rafinesque, 1817 | 1860 | James Layne | Gainesville |
![]() | Myotis Kaup, 1829 | 1860 | Harley B. Sherman | Gainesville |
![]() | Myotis austroriparius (Rhoads, 1897) | 1860 | unknown | Gainesville, 10 mi. W |
![]() | 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 |
All 18,590 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms near this place
5 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wacahoota | - | Large trees, a chicken coop and a woodshed were damaged by thunderstorm winds at SW 144th Lane near State Road 121. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Wacahoota | - | Half inch to penny size hail was reported on Wacahoota. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wacahoota | - | Large trees were blown down at SW 137th Avenue and SW Williston Road. |
| December 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wacahoota | - | Large trees and large tree limbs were blown down near the intersection of Williston and Wacahoota Roads in southern Gainesville. |
| June 1998 | Hail | Wacahoota | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinch | 1.2 miles | 19 | |
| Kanapaha | 3.3 miles | 19 | |
| Arredondo | 3.5 miles | 19 | |
| Kirkwood | 3.5 miles | 19 | |
| Arredondo Estates | 3.6 miles | 19 | |
| Riceland | 3.7 miles | 19 | |
| Rocky Point | 3.8 miles | 19 | |
| Malore Gardens | 4.0 miles | 19 |
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.



















