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Bay Pines, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Boca Ciega census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33708. It lies near Dog Leg Key. The Survey maps it on the Seminole quadrangle. 3,106 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Bay Pines within Pinellas County

Then and now

1921 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 74 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 Pines, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Bay Pines, surveyed 1921

Compare 1921 against another survey:

On record in Bay Pines

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Bay Pines grew from 2,931 to 3,106 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20102,931
20203,106+175 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 15 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

8 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Bay Pines between 1992 and 2016, burning about 38 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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
Arson/incendiarism3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural2
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 July 2015Natural7.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSEMINOLE (52)
14 June 1993Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 May 1992Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresFlorida Forest Service52 SEMINOLE PARK
14 April 2006Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresFlorida Forest Service52 102ND
26 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFlorida Forest Service52 WALSINGHAM
10 March 2016Arson/incendiarism10 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWALSINGHAM ROAD (52) **
10 March 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHERITAGE VILLAGE (52) **

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pinellas County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bay Pines in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2014Thunderstorm WindBay Pines$20,000Pinellas County Emergency Management reported 5 mobile homes on Park Street North experienced minor thunderstorm wind damage, with 2 additional units sustaining severe damage.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindBay Pines$1,000A tree was blown over by thunderstorm wind gusts in Seminole.
June 2008HailBay Pines-Nickel size hail was reported near the intersection of Park Street and 54th Avenue North.

Every storm recorded in Pinellas 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
Oakhurst Shores1.4 miles15
Madeira Beach1.5 miles15
Redington Beach1.8 miles15
Mitchell Beach1.9 miles15
Seminole1.9 miles15
Oakhurst (historical)2.1 miles15
The Jungle2.2 miles15
North Redington Beach2.3 miles15

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 PinesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q812080The 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 278218. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.