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Altos Verdes, Florida

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Tampa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33604. It stands on Curiosity Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sulphur Springs quadrangle.

Altos Verdes within Hillsborough County

Then and now

1944 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 51 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Altos Verdes, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Altos Verdes, surveyed 1944

Compare 1944 against another survey:

On record in Altos Verdes

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

21 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Altos Verdes between 1993 and 2018, burning about 98 acres in total. 6 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
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
4 September 2009Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service29 RIVER PARK
30 August 2001Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 August 1998Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 June 2006Fireworks1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service29 DEERWOOD
19 June 1993Misuse of fire by a minor40 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 May 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 May 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 May 2014Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBRUCE B. DOWNS (29)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hillsborough County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Altos Verdes: 2 producers, 1 plant, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Vermiculite, Iron. 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
Florida Steel Corp/ Tampa Fla.IronProducer
Verlite Co/ Tampa, Fla.VermiculitePlant
Bishop & Buttrey, Inc. - #83SandProducer
Kash & Karry Food Stores, Inc. - Harney Road MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Hillsborough 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
Sulphur Springs1.4 miles18
Del Rio1.9 miles18
Temple Terrace2.0 miles18
Palm2.1 miles18
Harney2.8 miles16
Citrus Park2.9 miles17
North Tampa Heights3.2 miles18
Goldstein3.3 miles18

Elsewhere

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.

Wikipedia article on Altos VerdesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122557557The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2482184. 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.