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Drexel, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Central Pasco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34639. The Survey maps it on the Lutz quadrangle.

Drexel within Pasco 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 Drexel, surveyed 1999
Topographic sheet of Drexel, 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

113 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Drexel between 1992 and 2016, burning about 3,851 acres in total. 42 started naturally. 18 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
Natural42
Arson/incendiarism18
Railroad operations and maintenance14
Equipment and vehicle use13
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning7
Recreation and ceremony3
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
24 September 1995Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 September 1992Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 August 2014Natural4.8 acresFlorida Forest ServiceRIVA RIDGE (51)
10 August 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service51/INDIAN HEAD FIRE/0875
8 July 1995Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 July 1998Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 July 2011Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTHE BEXLEY FIRE (51)
17 July 1997Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pasco 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 Drexel: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
The Cone Corp. - U.S. 41 MineSandProducer

Every working recorded in Pasco County

Storms near this place

4 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Drexel in 4 storm reports between 2013 and 2022: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 funnel cloud. 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
July 2019LightningDrexel$75,000A fire in the attic of a house on Chessington Drive in Land O' Lakes was suspected to be caused by lightning.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindDrexel$5,000Pasco County Emergency Management relayed a report of a mobile home that had its roof removed by strong winds in the Land O' Lakes area.
December 2022Funnel CloudDrexel-Trained spotter saw a funnel cloud that lasted about 5 minutes.
September 2013HailDrexel-Hail of up to the size of quarters was reported on Lake Thomas Road in Land O' Lakes.

Every storm recorded in Pasco 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
Dupree Gardens0.8 miles17
Land O' Lakes1.7 miles17
Ehren1.7 miles14
Fivay Junction6.4 miles14
Wesley Chapel7.0 miles16
Odessa7.8 miles19
Greenfield8.0 miles14
Gulf Pine8.4 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 294360. 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.