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Cheval, Florida

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Keystone-Citrus Park census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33558. The Survey maps it on the Odessa quadrangle. 12,522 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 59 feet above sea level.

Cheval within Hillsborough County

Then and now

1943 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 35 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cheval, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Cheval, surveyed 1943

Population over time

2 figures

Cheval grew from 10,702 to 12,522 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
201010,702
202012,522+1,820 (+17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

87 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Cheval between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,131 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 12 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
Natural16
Equipment and vehicle use14
Arson/incendiarism12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Fireworks3
Debris and open burning3
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
30 August 1997Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 August 1993Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 August 2017Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMARKER 22 (51)
22 August 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution11 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSUNLAKE (51)
4 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cheval: 2 unknowns. 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.

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
Lutz2.8 miles17
Bruing2.8 miles17
Deer Park3.0 miles17
Lake Fern3.4 miles19
Northdale3.8 miles17
Chapman4.0 miles18
Cosme4.1 miles17
Foxs Corner4.2 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 ChevalAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1851883The 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 1853241. 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.