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Weirsdale, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Belleview census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32195. The Survey maps it on the Lady Lake quadrangle. It stands 95 feet above sea level.

Weirsdale within Marion County

Then and now

1955 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 24 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Weirsdale, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Weirsdale, surveyed 1955

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

169 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 169 fires within 5 miles of Weirsdale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,373 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 9 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 maintenance58
Equipment and vehicle use33
Debris and open burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Natural16
Arson/incendiarism9
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
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
30 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenance2.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 1993Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHIGHWAY 42 (42)
8 August 2012Natural28 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBLACKBERRY RANCH (42)
6 August 2000Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMARION/25 FIRE
30 August 1997Debris and open burning50 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Weirsdale: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand. 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
Florida Rock Industries - Weirsdale MineSandProducer

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

7 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Weirsdale in 7 storm reports between 2004 and 2017: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 heavy rain, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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
May 2006LightningWeirsdale1 hurtno account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindWeirsdale$2,000no account filed
April 2017Thunderstorm WindWeirsdale$200A power line was blown down along Highway 42 near Weirsdale. The cost of damage was unknown, but it was estimated so the event could be included in Storm Data.
June 2017Heavy RainWeirsdale-The public estimated 3 inches of rainfall in one hour.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindWeirsdale-A horse farm between SE 175th and SE 180th Streets reported large tree limbs down due to thunderstorm winds. The limbs had to be bound and towed to a burn pile. Strong wind gusts were also reported which severely rattled the residents mobile home.
September 2007Heavy RainWeirsdale-There was minor street flooding at the intersection of County Road 25 and Highway 42 in Weirsdale. The spotter observed about 4 to 8 inches standing water on some roads in the area.
July 2007Heavy RainWeirsdale-A spotter measured 1.5 inches of rainfall in 20 minutes.

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Stanton1.1 miles13
East Lake Weir2.8 miles10
Sunset Harbor3.0 miles13
Orange Blossom Hills4.2 miles18
Ocklawaha4.2 miles10
Lake Weir4.3 miles10
Lake Weir (historical)4.8 miles10
East Silver Springs Shore4.9 miles10

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on WeirsdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7980363The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 292995. 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.

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.