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Antioch, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Tampa census division. It stands on Baker Creek. The Survey maps it on the Plant City West quadrangle.

Antioch within Hillsborough County

Then and now

1944 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 34 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Antioch, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Antioch, surveyed 1944

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Antioch between 1992 and 2019, burning about 566 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
Railroad operations and maintenance19
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1

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
23 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSYDNEY DOVER (29)
11 August 1998Natural40 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 June 1993Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 June 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 June 1999Natural50 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 June 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service910
12 June 2000Natural150 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 June 1998Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hillsborough County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Antioch: 4 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Peat, Magnesite. 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 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
Thonotosassa3.0 miles16
Snows Corner3.4 miles16
Jolly Corner3.7 miles16
Clarkwild3.8 miles16
Dover4.0 miles13
Kennedy Hill4.2 miles16
Mango Hills4.5 miles16
Seffner4.6 miles16

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 AntiochAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19321925The 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 294654. 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.