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Del Rio, Florida

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Tampa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33610. The Survey maps it on the Sulphur Springs quadrangle.

Del Rio within Hillsborough County

Then and now

1944 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 51 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Del Rio, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Del Rio, surveyed 1944

Compare 1944 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

Fires near this place

16 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Del Rio between 1992 and 2018, burning about 98 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None 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
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks1

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
9 June 2006Fireworks1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service29 DEERWOOD
4 May 1994Railroad operations and maintenance8.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 May 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 May 2017Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceLETTUCE LAKE PARK (29)
16 May 1994Natural30 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 April 2016Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceROWLETTE PARK (29)
18 April 1992Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 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

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Del Rio: 2 plants, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Vermiculite, Iron. 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
Florida Steel Corp/ Tampa Fla.IronProducer
Tampa Cargil Inc.Phosphorus-PhosphatesPlant
Verlite Co/ Tampa, Fla.VermiculitePlant
Bishop & Buttrey, Inc. - #83SandProducer
Kash & Karry Food Stores, Inc. - Harney Road 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
Harney1.4 miles16
Altos Verdes1.9 miles18
Temple Terrace1.9 miles18
Palm2.7 miles18
Orient Park2.9 miles16
Sulphur Springs2.9 miles18
Temple Terrace Junction2.9 miles16
Gardenville3.0 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 Del RioAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5975785The 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 1867134. 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.