Dellwood, Florida

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Clearwater census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33759. It stands on Alligator Creek. The Survey maps it on the Safety Harbor quadrangle.

Dellwood 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 Dellwood, surveyed 1998

Topographic sheet of Dellwood, surveyed 1921

Compare 1921 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 20 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 Safety Harbor quadrangle1:31680
1947 USGS Safety Harbor quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1952 USGS Safety Harbor quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Safety Harbor quadrangle1:24000, 5 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 Safety Harbor quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

33 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Dellwood between 1992 and 2017, burning about 168 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 6 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
Natural	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Arson/incendiarism	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
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
15 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
31 July 2000	Natural	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
31 July 1999	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
20 July 2006	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	52 COCO PLUM
16 July 1997	Natural	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
22 June 1999	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
21 June 2010	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	52 SAFETY HARBOR FIRE
21 June 1998	Railroad operations and maintenance	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pinellas 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 Dellwood: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Largo Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working 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
Safety Harbor	1.0 miles	20
Coachman	1.6 miles	20
Bayview	1.6 miles	20
Mecca	3.1 miles	16
Bridgeport	3.2 miles	16
Dunedin	4.2 miles	17
Oldsmar	4.2 miles	16
Harbor Palms	4.3 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295239. 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.