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Beacon Square, Florida

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the New Port Richey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34691. The Survey maps it on the Tarpon Springs quadrangle. 8,320 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7 feet above sea level.

Beacon Square within Pasco County

Then and now

1943 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 52 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Beacon Square, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Beacon Square, surveyed 1943

Compare 1943 against another survey:

Population over time

3 figures

Beacon Square grew from 7,263 to 8,320 between 2000 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
20007,263
20107,224-39 (-1%)
20208,320+1,096 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

97 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Beacon Square between 1992 and 2020, burning about 632 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 34 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/incendiarism34
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Equipment and vehicle use12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Natural11
Recreation and ceremony7
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service51/ANCLOTE FIRE-0987
1 September 1999Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 August 1997Natural28 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 August 2006Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Service51/AVERY FIRE/0839
7 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceRUSHMORE (51)
4 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 July 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 July 2008Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service51/DOVE/0766

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Beacon Lakes0.5 miles17
Holiday1.7 miles17
Gulf Harbors1.8 miles18
Elfers1.8 miles17
Forest Hills2.5 miles17
Anclote2.6 miles18
New Port Richey3.1 miles17
Trinity4.3 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 Beacon SquareAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q187716The 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 293636. 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.