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York, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Fellowship census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34481. The Survey maps it on the Cotton Plant quadrangle.

York within Marion County

Then and now

1892 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of York, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of York, surveyed 1892

Compare 1892 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

160 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 160 fires within 5 miles of York between 1992 and 2019, burning about 666 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 16 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 burning46
Railroad operations and maintenance32
Equipment and vehicle use19
Natural18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism16
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking1

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
25 September 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSW 30TH LN (42)
24 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 August 1999Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 August 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMARION/70TH
16 August 2018Natural17 acresFlorida Forest Service89TH ST (42)
13 August 1997Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 August 1996Natural25 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion 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 York: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, 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
Counts Constr. - 140th Ave. MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Number 8 MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

15 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names York in 15 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 5 heavy rain, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 lightning. 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
August 2018LightningYork$5,000Lightning struck a home along SE 90th Court. The cost of damage was unknown but estimated for the event to be included in Storm Data.
January 2017Thunderstorm WindYork$3,000A tree was blown down onto a street lamp. The street lamp fell on a home. This occurred in the the On Top of the World subdivision. The cost of damage was unknown, but it was estimated for the event to be included in Storm Data.
July 2025Heavy RainYork-A mesonet site CWOP AD4UU in Ocala FL reported 2.96 inches of rain in one hour.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindYork-A tree was blown down just north of SW 103rd Street. The time of damage was based on radar.
June 2023Heavy RainYork-A spotter measured 5.18 inches of rainfall over a 7 hour period.
December 2023Heavy RainYork-A mesonet station about 5 miles SW of the Ocala Airport measured daily storm total rainfall of 6.54 inches as of 5:45 am.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindYork-A mesonet station AV369 in Ocala measured a thunderstorm wind of 73 mph. Around this time, an EF1 tornado was passing nearby.
September 2022Heavy RainYork-A mesonet station AV639 about 5 miles SW of the Ocala Airport measured 2.29 inches of rainfall.
August 2020LightningYork-A lightning strike at a golf course injured 4 people. The bolt struck the ground near the people.
May 2020HailYork-Nickel size hail was reported near State Road 200 and SW 105th Street.
August 2019Heavy RainYork-The 24-hr rainfall was 2.06 inches.
April 2019HailYork-Nickel size hail was reported on 80th Street just SW of the Ocala Airport.
April 2015Tornado (EF1)York-An EF1 tornado touched down just east of State Road 200 at the Oak Run Country Club. Spotty EF0 damage was noted throughout the Oak Run neighborhood. The tornado continued on an east to east-northeast path into the Palm Cay subdivision, where it reached its maximum intensity of EF1. Spotter EF0 damage was noted just south of SW 103rd Street at the conclusion of the tornado path, which was about 2 miles in length. The duration of this tornado was likely less than 5 minutes. There was significant roof and tree damage within the small EF1 damage. The cost of damage was unknown.
May 2014HailYork-A spotter reported dime to quarter size hail in On Top of The World that lasted for 10 minutes.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindYork-Trees and power lines were blown down about seven miles east of Rainbow Lakes Estates. Trees and power lines were also blown down just north of Dunnellon and in Marion Oaks.

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Leroy (historical)1.9 miles17
Cotton Plant2.3 miles17
Rolling Hills2.9 miles17
Ocala Thoroughbred Acres3.4 miles17
Sherman Oaks3.6 miles17
Ocala Estates3.6 miles17
Mount Olive3.6 miles17
Martel3.8 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295722. 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.