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Ehren, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Central Pasco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34637. The Survey maps it on the Ehren quadrangle.

Ehren within Pasco County

Then and now

1954 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 24 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ehren, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Ehren, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

121 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Ehren between 1992 and 2016, burning about 2,256 acres in total. 37 started naturally. 15 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
Natural37
Equipment and vehicle use16
Arson/incendiarism15
Debris and open burning15
Railroad operations and maintenance14
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony4

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
29 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 September 1995Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 September 1992Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2006Natural45 acresFlorida Forest Service51/NIGHT GLOW FIRE/0859
30 August 2014Natural4.8 acresFlorida Forest ServiceRIVA RIDGE (51)
8 July 1995Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 July 1997Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 July 1995Natural1.5 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 Ehren: 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

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ehren in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2019Thunderstorm WindEhren$15,000Power lines were reported down, blocking the intersection of Barcellona Road and Land O' Lakes Boulevard.

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
Drexel1.7 miles17
Dupree Gardens2.0 miles17
Land O' Lakes3.3 miles17
Fivay Junction5.5 miles14
Wesley Chapel6.6 miles16
Greenfield6.7 miles14
Pasco7.1 miles14
Darby8.1 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295258. 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.