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Egypt Lake, 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 33614. The Survey maps it on the Sulphur Springs quadrangle.

Egypt Lake 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 Egypt Lake, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Egypt Lake, 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

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Egypt Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 105 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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 maintenance6
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
30 August 2001Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 July 1992Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 July 1992Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 June 1995Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 May 1994Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 May 1995Smoking3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 May 2014Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceT&C GREENWAY TRAIL (29)
15 May 1992Misuse of fire by a minor10 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 Egypt Lake: 2 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Vermiculite, Gypsum-Anhydrite, 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
Standard Gypsum Corp.Gypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
Verlite Co/ Tampa, Fla.VermiculitePlant
Bishop & Buttrey, Inc. - #83SandProducer
Dot Tampa - Benjamin MineSandUnknownSand

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
West Park1.2 miles17
Leto1.2 miles17
Goldstein1.4 miles18
Mullis City1.7 miles17
Carrollwood2.3 miles18
Sulphur Springs2.4 miles18
Drew Park2.5 miles20
Palm2.5 miles18

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 Egypt LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5348323The 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 1867138. 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.