Windsor, Florida

The same ground, surveyed 43 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1938 1981

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 1 record

• Neilson Houselisted 1973

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.

• 1938 USGS Hawthorn quadrangle1:48000
• 1943 USGS Hawthorn quadrangle1:62500
• 1954 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Orange Heights quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1981 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 183 fires within 5 miles of Windsor between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,173 acres in total. 40 started naturally. 11 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:

• Grove Park
• Phifer
• Campville
• Newnans Lake Homesites
• Orange Heights
• Rex

Every fire recorded in Alachua County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 16,958 specimens collected within 10 miles of Windsor between 1806 and 1975: 8,119 Fungi, 6,987 Animalia, 1,006 Protozoa, 630 Plantae, 132 Chromista, 82 Unrecorded, 2 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A B GROBMAN, A S Rhoads 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
	Hypericum suffruticosum P.B.Adams & N.Robson	1876	Abram Paschal Garber	Gainesville
	Poria alabamae (Berk. & Cooke) Cooke	1887	Calkins	Florida
	Ditrichum pallidum (Hedw.) Hampe	1806	C. E. Faxon
	Canthon pilularius (Linnaeus, 1758)	1822	F. W. Walker	Gainesville
	Ilex vomitoria Aiton	1826	A. P. Garber
	Burmannia biflora L.	1850	H Gillman
	Ctenium aromaticum (Walter) Alph.Wood	1850	H Gillman
	Cyperus croceus Vahl	1850	H Gillman
	Cyperus lecontei Torr. ex Steud.	1850	H Gillman
	Cyperus retrorsus Chapm.	1850	H Gillman
	Fimbristylis vahlii (Lam.) Link	1850	H Gillman

All 16,958 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Windsor: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Windsor in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2023: 2 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.

Every storm 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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295712. 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.

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.