Wimberly Estates, Florida

The same ground, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1890 1994

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.

• 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 Gainesville West quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
• 1981 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1994 USGS Gainesville West quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Wimberly Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,435 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 10 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Northwood
• Paradise
• Shadow Lawn Estates
• Gainesville
• Alachua
• Chantilly Acres

Every fire recorded in Alachua County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 21,772 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wimberly Estates between 1806 and 1975: 9,285 Animalia, 9,113 Fungi, 1,886 Protozoa, 1,197 Plantae, 155 Chromista, 134 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
	Ditrichum pallidum (Hedw.) Hampe	1806	C. E. Faxon
	Canthon pilularius (Linnaeus, 1758)	1822	F. W. Walker	Gainesville
	Ilex vomitoria Aiton	1826	A. P. Garber
	Ctenium aromaticum (Walter) Alph.Wood	1842	F Engel
	Cryptotis parva (Say, 1823)	1860	A. Arata	Gainesville, 6 mi. NW
	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
	Podomys floridanus (Chapman, 1889)	1860	James Layne	Gainesville, 8 mi NW

All 21,772 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Wimberly Estates: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, Free, 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.

Every working recorded in Alachua County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 293393. 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.

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.