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Boyette, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Wimauma-Riverview census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33547. It lies near Coleman Hammock. The Survey maps it on the Lithia quadrangle.

Boyette within Hillsborough County

Then and now

1955 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 33 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Boyette, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Boyette, surveyed 1955

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

155 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 155 fires within 5 miles of Boyette between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,378 acres in total. 40 started naturally. 14 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
Natural40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Equipment and vehicle use22
Railroad operations and maintenance21
Arson/incendiarism14
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Debris and open burning10
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1

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 2011Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBROWNING (29)
28 August 1994Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 August 1999Railroad operations and maintenance20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 August 1998Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 July 1993Natural11 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 July 1992Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2017Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBALM WIMAUMA (29)
7 July 2001Natural30 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

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Boyette: 2 producers, 2 prospects, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, Free, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Iron, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
Boyette-FishhawkPhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, Free, IronProspect
Hillsborough Co.- Farmland/BrewsterPhosphorus-Phosphates, Magnesite, Uranium, Iron, Aluminum, Fluorine-FluoriteProspect1950
Hurley Enterprises, Inc. - Hurley Tailwater RecSandProducer
Phillips and Jordan - Rhodine Rode PitSandProducer
Ranch Rd. Grove Corporation - Ranch Road Grove 1a MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Hillsborough County

Storms near this place

6 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boyette in 6 storm reports between 2012 and 2017: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 tornado, 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
May 2014Tornado (EF0)Boyette$50,000A tornado briefly touched down in the Colonial Hills neighborhood of Riverview, damaging 10 to 12 houses, mostly with roof and window damage. Several homes had 10 to 20% of the asphalt shingles stripped off, and one home was missing a section of plywood roofing as well. An anchored outbuilding was completely destroyed and thrown into a home, significantly damaging the concrete block walls of the home. Several boats were flipped and thrown off of trailers and/or moved 10-15 yards, and one was lifted to a nearly 90 degree angle up into a tree. Additionally, fences and pool enclosures were completely destroyed, and several large trees were uprooted or sustained damage to large limbs.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindBoyette$1,000Thunderstorm wind gusts and heavy rain pushed over one shallow rooted tree and caused minor damage to fencing and pool cage screens.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindBoyette$500Law enforcement reported a tree down on Fishhawk Blvd near Bell Shoals Rd. The tree was blocking one lane of traffic.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindBoyette$500An off-duty NWS employee reported large tree branches that measured 3 to 4 inches in diameter were knocked down.
April 2013LightningBoyette$200Lightning struck a stable at RVR Horse Rescue, killing 1 horse and injuring the eye of another. A time for the lighting strike was estimated at 11:00am EST from radar and lightning archives during the peak of convection over the area.
May 2017HailBoyette-no account filed

Every storm 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
Fish Hawk2.4 miles12
Lithia3.4 miles12
Marvina4.0 miles13
Balm4.5 miles16
Pinecrest4.7 miles12
Aldermans Ford5.1 miles12
Bloomingdale5.3 miles13
Lillibridge6.2 miles12

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 BoyetteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2669030The 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 295147. 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.

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.