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Zuber, Florida

human settlement in Florida, United States of America

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2025
Entity authorityQ8074935 ↗
Source-derived summary

Zuber is an unincorporated community in Marion County, Florida, United States. The intersection of State Road 326 and County Road 25A is located nearby. The community's commerce is supported by its proximity to Interstate 75.

The community is part of the Ocala Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Notable person

Ruby (Jackson) McCollum- She was born and grew up in Zuber. A wealthy African-American woman, she was notable for being convicted in 1952 in the shooting death of C. Leroy Adams, a wealthy white doctor in Live Oak, Florida, where she and her husband Sam lived.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Zuber, Florida” is human settlement in Florida, United States of America. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Zuber, Florida and human, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1952—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Zuber, Florida and human is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “human settlement in Florida, United States of America” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 7, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q8074935. Authority coordinates are 29.267, -82.181. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1952.

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This entry incorporates text from “Zuber, Florida” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.