Cross Bayou, Florida

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the St. Petersburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33782. The Survey maps it on the Saint Petersburg quadrangle.

Cross Bayou within Pinellas County

Then and now

1921 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cross Bayou, surveyed 1998

Topographic sheet of Cross Bayou, surveyed 1921

Compare 1921 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 18 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.

1921 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:62500
1921 USGS St. Petersburg quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:31680
1947 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:25000
1956 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS St. Petersburg quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1972 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:250000
1998 USGS Saint Petersburg quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Cross Bayou between 1992 and 2017, burning about 550 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 5 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
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Natural	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 1996	Natural	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
28 August 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
7 July 2001	Railroad operations and maintenance	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
4 July 2015	Natural	7.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	SEMINOLE (52)
29 July 1993	Natural	20 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
13 July 1993	Natural	20 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
11 July 1995	Natural	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
4 June 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	60 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pinellas 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Pinellas Park	2.1 miles	18
Kenneth City	3.0 miles	18
Ulmerton	3.2 miles	15
Seminole	3.3 miles	15
Walsingham	3.6 miles	15
Bay Pines	3.8 miles	15
Oakhurst (historical)	3.8 miles	15
Lealman	3.8 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295229. 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.