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Clarkwild, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Tampa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33592. The Survey maps it on the Thonotosassa quadrangle.

Clarkwild within Hillsborough County

Then and now

1943 to 1995

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Clarkwild, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Clarkwild, surveyed 1943

Compare 1943 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Clarkwild between 1992 and 2020, burning about 633 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 1 was 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
Natural14
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Fireworks2
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
4 September 2009Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service29 RIVER PARK
11 August 1998Natural40 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTROUT CREEK PARK (29)
28 July 2005Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Service29 FLATWOODS 2
28 July 2005Natural12 acresFlorida Forest Service29 FLATWOODS
9 June 2006Fireworks1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service29 DEERWOOD
6 June 2011Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTROUT CREEK (29)
3 June 2008Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service29 FLATWOODS CMD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hillsborough County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Clarkwild: 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand, Peat, Magnesite. 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
Unnamed Peat DepositPeat, MagnesiteOccurrence
Azzarelli Development Corp. - Pruit Road PitSandProducer
Dot Tampa - Pruitt MineSandUnknownSand
Dot Tampa - Williams MineSandUnknownSand

Every working recorded in Hillsborough County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarkwild in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flood. 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
September 2017FloodClarkwild$2,000,000Heavy rains from Hurricane Irma caused the Hillsborough River at Morris Bridge to rise above flood stage on the 12th, with flooding continuing through the 20th. The water level crested at 34.66 feet on the 14th, 0.66 feet above the moderate flooding threshold. This marks the highest crest in history for the Hillsborough River at Morris Bridge.||The flood waters entered mobile homes in the Pine Ridge Estates neighborhood. Flood damage to homes was estimated at $2 million.
February 2020Thunderstorm WindClarkwild$8,000Shingles blown off house.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindClarkwild$5,000A large tree was uprooted by the wind.
January 2010Thunderstorm WindClarkwild$3,000The roof peeled off of a single-wide mobile home at the end of Verges Road in Thonotosassa. No other damage was reported in the area.
July 2008HailClarkwild-Nickel to quarter size hail was reported in New Tampa.

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
Thonotosassa1.2 miles16
Temple Terrace Junction2.2 miles16
Kennedy Hill3.5 miles16
Jolly Corner3.6 miles16
Antioch3.8 miles16
Harney3.8 miles16
Temple Terrace3.9 miles18
Mango Hills4.3 miles16

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 Q122569402The 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 295196. 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.