Citrus Ridge, Florida

The same ground, surveyed 24 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1955 1979

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.

• 1955 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Lake Louisa SW quadrangle1:24000, 7 printings
• 1962 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
• 1979 USGS Kissimmee quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Citrus Ridge between 1992 and 2019, burning about 7,982 acres in total. 34 started naturally. 15 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Citrus Ridge: 2 producers, 2 prospects. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Diatomite. 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 Polk County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1953631. 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.