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Deer Park, 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 33548. The Survey maps it on the Lutz quadrangle.

Deer Park 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 Deer Park, surveyed 1999
Topographic sheet of Deer Park, surveyed 1943

Compare 1943 against another survey:

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

71 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Deer Park between 1992 and 2018, burning about 635 acres in total. 12 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 maintenance17
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism9
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Debris and open burning2
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
22 August 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution11 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSUNLAKE (51)
10 August 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service51/INDIAN HEAD FIRE/0875
4 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
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
8 June 2011Natural7.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePARK (51)

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 Deer Park: 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
Lutz0.8 miles17
Bruing1.8 miles17
Cheval3.0 miles19
Chapman3.6 miles18
Northdale5.3 miles17
Lake Magdalene6.1 miles18
Nowatney6.1 miles18
Pebble Creek6.2 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 300078. 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.