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.
Then and now
1954 to 1978The 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.


Population over time
2 figuresWilliston 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,275 | |
| 2020 | 2,591 | +316 (+14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1954 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Bronson SE quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Bronson SE quadrangle1:25000
- 1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Ocala quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
367 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 117 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 88 |
| Natural | 45 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 44 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 29 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 15 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 8 |
| Other causes | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2006 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | LEVY/THE WIRE FIRE |
| 2 September 1994 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | SE 141ST AVE(38) |
| 15 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | LEVY-UP ONE 2010-08-0533 |
| 14 September 1995 | Natural | 6.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 10 September 1997 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 10 September 1994 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 1 September 2011 | Natural | 6.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 25TH STREET(38) |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gulf Hamock Mine | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Williston Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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.
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 Highlands | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1852029 | The 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.





