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Bay Crest Park, Florida

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Tampa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33615. It stands on Woods Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gandy Bridge quadrangle. It stands 7 feet above sea level.

Bay Crest Park within Hillsborough County

Then and now

1921 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bay Crest Park, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Bay Crest Park, surveyed 1921

Compare 1921 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Bay Crest Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 537 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 5 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
Natural15
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1

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
9 August 1993Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 1992Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 August 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePAM CALLAHAN PRESERVE (29)
9 July 1995Equipment and vehicle use40 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 July 1992Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 July 1992Railroad 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bay Crest Park: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand. 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
Dot Tampa - Benjamin MineSandUnknownSand
Larkin Contracting, Inc. - Brown Pond ExcavationSandUnknown

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
Rocky Creek1.0 miles17
Sweetwater Creek1.2 miles20
Town 'n' Country1.4 miles17
Drew Park3.5 miles20
Tarpon3.5 miles17
Leto3.5 miles17
West Park3.6 miles17
Egypt Lake4.8 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 Bay Crest ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q15051621The 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 2481525. 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.