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White Springs, Florida

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the White Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32096. The Survey maps it on the White Springs West quadrangle. 740 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 112 feet above sea level.

White Springs within Hamilton 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 White Springs, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of White Springs, surveyed 1954

On record in White Springs

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

3 figures

White Springs fell from 819 to 740 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000819
2010777-42 (-5%)
2020740-37 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

228 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 228 fires within 5 miles of White Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,354 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning71
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Railroad operations and maintenance40
Equipment and vehicle use27
Natural26
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1
Smoking1
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
8 September 1994Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service100TH WAY (24-06)
18 September 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWOODPECKER (24-06)
13 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 August 2001Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 August 1997Railroad operations and maintenance30 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 July 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest Service61-MATTRESS FIRE-0962

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hamilton County

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 White Springs: 1 plant, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
White Springs DepositPhosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Fluorine-FluoriteProspect1967
White Springs Phos-Acid PlantPhosphorus-PhosphatesPlant

Every working recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names White Springs in 1 storm report in 1994: 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
July 1994Thunderstorm WindWhite Springs$500Sheriff's office reported power lines down near White Springs.

Every storm recorded in Hamilton 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
Facil3.0 miles9
Long Branch4.6 miles9
Genoa6.3 miles9
Purvis Still6.8 miles9
Camps Still9.1 miles9
Blacks Still9.7 miles9
Belmont11.6 miles9
Marion12.6 miles8

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 White SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2036752The 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 293230. 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.