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Williston Highlands, Florida

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Williston-Bronson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32696. The Survey maps it on the Bronson SE quadrangle. 2,591 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 92 feet above sea level.

Williston Highlands within Levy County

Then and now

1954 to 1978

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 Williston Highlands, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Williston Highlands, surveyed 1954

Population over time

2 figures

Williston Highlands grew from 2,275 to 2,591 between 2010 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
20102,275
20202,591+316 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

367 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 367 fires within 5 miles of Williston Highlands between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,346 acres in total. 45 started naturally. 15 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 burning117
Railroad operations and maintenance88
Natural45
Equipment and vehicle use44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Arson/incendiarism15
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Other causes6
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking2

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
21 September 2006Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceLEVY/THE WIRE FIRE
2 September 1994Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSE 141ST AVE(38)
15 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceLEVY-UP ONE 2010-08-0533
14 September 1995Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 September 1994Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2011Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest Service25TH STREET(38)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Levy 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 Williston Highlands: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Gulf Hamock MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Williston PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Levy 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
Montbrook4.9 miles16
Williston6.0 miles15
Hodgson6.3 miles15
Morriston6.8 miles16
Raleigh8.0 miles15
Bronson9.1 miles10
Beetree Ford9.5 miles11
Merediths10.1 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 Williston HighlandsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1852029The 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 303894. 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.