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Fish Hawk, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Wimauma-Riverview census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33547. It lies near Coleman Hammock. The Survey maps it on the Lithia quadrangle. 24,625 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 62 feet above sea level.

Fish Hawk within Hillsborough County

Then and now

1955 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 33 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fish Hawk, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Fish Hawk, surveyed 1955

Population over time

2 figures

Fish Hawk grew from 14,087 to 24,625 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201014,087
202024,625+10,538 (+75%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

120 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Fish Hawk between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,506 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 9 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
Natural28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Railroad operations and maintenance16
Equipment and vehicle use15
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism9
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1

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
22 September 2011Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBROWNING (29)
28 August 1994Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 August 1999Railroad operations and maintenance20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 July 1993Natural11 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 July 1992Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 July 2012Natural22 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTRIPLE CREEK (29)
5 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 July 2016Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceRISING OAKS (29)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hillsborough County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Fish Hawk: 2 prospects, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Sand, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, Free, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Iron, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
Boyette-FishhawkPhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, Free, IronProspect
Hillsborough Co.- Farmland/BrewsterPhosphorus-Phosphates, Magnesite, Uranium, Iron, Aluminum, Fluorine-FluoriteProspect1950
Phillips and Jordan - Rhodine Rode PitSandProducer
Ranch Rd. Grove Corporation - Ranch Road Grove 1a 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
Marvina1.9 miles13
Lithia1.9 miles12
Boyette2.4 miles12
Bloomingdale3.4 miles13
Pinecrest3.5 miles12
Aldermans Ford3.6 miles12
Durant4.2 miles13
Pleasant Grove4.4 miles13

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 Fish HawkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2101663The 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 1853251. 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.