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.
Then and now
1943 to 1995The 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.


Compare 1943 against another survey:
Population over time
3 figuresBeacon 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 7,263 | |
| 2010 | 7,224 | -39 (-1%) |
| 2020 | 8,320 | +1,096 (+15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1943 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:31680
- 1955 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1978 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:100000
- 1995 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
97 since 1992Regional 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/incendiarism | 34 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 16 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 51/ANCLOTE FIRE-0987 |
| 1 September 1999 | Natural | 20 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 23 August 1997 | Natural | 28 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 1 August 2006 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 51/AVERY FIRE/0839 |
| 7 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | RUSHMORE (51) |
| 4 July 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 29 July 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 22 July 2008 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 51/DOVE/0766 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beacon Lakes | 0.5 miles | 17 | |
| Holiday | 1.7 miles | 17 | |
| Gulf Harbors | 1.8 miles | 18 | |
| Elfers | 1.8 miles | 17 | |
| Forest Hills | 2.5 miles | 17 | |
| Anclote | 2.6 miles | 18 | |
| New Port Richey | 3.1 miles | 17 | |
| Trinity | 4.3 miles | 17 |
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 Square | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q187716 | The 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.









