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Photograph of High Springs Historic District
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High Springs Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. 5 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1954.

From the record

“The High Springs Historic District is a U.S. historic district located in High Springs, Florida. It encompasses approximately 750 acres (3.0 km2), bounded by Northwest 14th Street, Northwest 6th Avenue, Southeast 7th Street and Southwest 5th Avenue.”

Wikipedia article High Springs Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 64 National Register listings published here for Alachua County · listed in 1991 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Fires near this property

142 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of High Springs Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 695 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 2 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 burning48
Railroad operations and maintenance38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Equipment and vehicle use14
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
18 September 1997Debris and open burning15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceDEVON PLACE (12)
6 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA/HILLSIDE
19 August 1997Railroad operations and maintenance5.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceALACHUA/CHICKEN PEN
8 July 1995Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 July 2015Natural35 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMT. PLEASANT (01)
19 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2010-08-0481/ALACHUA

Every fire recorded in Alachua County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 726 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 726 specimens collected within 10 miles of High Springs Historic District between 1896 and 1975: 419 Animalia, 186 Fungi, 70 Plantae, 23 Unrecorded, 14 Protozoa, 14 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Gholson Jr., A. H. Smith, A. Martinez 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks.Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks.1896Edmon WestGainesville
Aves1897not recordedAlachua Co
A photograph of the species Chordodes puerilis, not of this specimenChordodes puerilis Montgomery, 18981906E. AndersonHigh Springs
A photograph of the species Coleosporium elephantopodis, not of this specimenColeosporium elephantopodis Thüm., 18781915G. G. HedgcockGainesville
A photograph of the species Coleosporium helianthi, not of this specimenColeosporium helianthi (Schwein.) Arthur1916G. G. HedgcockGainesville
A photograph of the species Grus canadensis, not of this specimenGrus canadensis pratensis F.A.A.Meyer, 17941916J. J. SimpsonHigh Springs, near
A photograph of the species Cyanocitta cristata, not of this specimenCyanocitta cristata cristata (Linnaeus, 1758)1917Collector(s): Marsden Treutlen CleckleyHigh Springs
A photograph of the species Melanerpes carolinus, not of this specimenMelanerpes carolinus (Linnaeus, 1758)1917Simpson, J JHigh Springs
A photograph of the species Penstemon australis, not of this specimenPenstemon australis subsp. australis1917F. W. PennellHigh Springs
A photograph of the species Coleosporium minutum, not of this specimenColeosporium minutum (Hedgc.) Hedgc. & N.R.Hunt1918G. G. HedgcockGainesville
A photograph of the species Colinus virginianus, not of this specimenColinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)1919Not recordedHigh Springs, near
A photograph of the species Scincella lateralis, not of this specimenScincella lateralis (Say, 1822)1922J S ALEXANDERPOE SPRINGS

All 726 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of High Springs Historic District: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
High Springs MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
North Fla. Limerock - High SprgsLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Alachua County

Maps showing this location

5 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

2 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Stephens House6.3 miles2017
City of Alachua Downtown Historic District6.9 miles2000

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 91001540 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Alachua CountyAll 64 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • 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.