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Bayonet Point, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Port Richey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34668. The Survey maps it on the Port Richey quadrangle. 26,713 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 30 feet above sea level.

Bayonet Point within Pasco County

Then and now

1954 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 44 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bayonet Point, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Bayonet Point, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Bayonet Point grew from 23,467 to 26,713 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
201023,467
202026,713+3,246 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

276 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 276 fires within 5 miles of Bayonet Point between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,887 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 65 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
Equipment and vehicle use76
Arson/incendiarism65
Misuse of fire by a minor35
Railroad operations and maintenance31
Recreation and ceremony20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Natural17
Debris and open burning9
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks2

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
22 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2013Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMILLER BAYOU (51)
17 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 August 1997Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 August 2002Natural8.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 July 1997Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresFlorida Forest Service51/OAK FIRE/0809

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pasco 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 Bayonet Point: 2 producers, 2 unknowns. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Aripeka QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Dot Dade City - Hudson MineSandUnknownSand
Golden Crown Enterprises, Inc. - Bolton Ave. Sand MineSandUnknown
Sunset Sand Mine Inc. - Sunset Sand MineSandProducer

Every working recorded in Pasco 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
Jasmine Estates2.3 miles15
Hudson2.7 miles15
Port Richey4.2 miles15
New Port Richey6.0 miles17
Aripeka7.4 miles14
Gulf Harbors7.5 miles18
Elfers7.9 miles17
Seven Springs8.0 miles17

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 Bayonet PointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q240417The 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 1867113. 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.