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Bruing, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Tampa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33549. The Survey maps it on the Lutz quadrangle.

Bruing within Hillsborough County

Then and now

1943 to 1999

The same ground, surveyed 56 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bruing, surveyed 1999
Topographic sheet of Bruing, surveyed 1943

Compare 1943 against another survey:

On record in Bruing

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

78 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Bruing between 1992 and 2018, burning about 709 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 9 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
Railroad operations and maintenance19
Natural14
Equipment and vehicle use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Arson/incendiarism9
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Debris and open burning2
Fireworks2
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
18 September 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 1993Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 August 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution11 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSUNLAKE (51)
2 August 1998Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 August 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service51/INDIAN HEAD FIRE/0875
4 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBURNISTON DRIVE (29)
9 June 2008Natural17 acresFlorida Forest Service51/WELL FIELD/0589

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hillsborough County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bruing: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand. 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
Centex Real Estate Corp. - Carrolton Lakes MineSandUnknown

Every working 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
Lutz1.1 miles17
Deer Park1.8 miles17
Chapman1.8 miles18
Cheval2.8 miles19
Northdale3.6 miles17
Lake Magdalene4.3 miles18
Nowatney4.4 miles18
North Tampa Heights4.8 miles18

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.

Wikidata item Q122595827The 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 300079. 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.