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Fivay Junction, 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 34638. The Survey maps it on the Fivay Junction quadrangle.

Fivay Junction 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 Fivay Junction, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Fivay Junction, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

238 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 238 fires within 5 miles of Fivay Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,351 acres in total. 87 started naturally. 46 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
Natural87
Arson/incendiarism46
Equipment and vehicle use35
Railroad operations and maintenance22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Debris and open burning17
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
23 September 1995Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 September 1992Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2006Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest Service51/CIRCLE FIRE-0969
12 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSUNCOAST FIRE [51]
10 September 2007Natural17 acresFlorida Forest Service51/2 STRIKES FIRE/1071
8 August 2000Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 August 1996Natural50 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fivay Junction: 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Lsb Corporation - Lsb Corporation MineSandUnknown
The Cone Corp. - U.S. 41 MineSandProducer

Every working 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
Greenfield2.2 miles14
Loyce4.3 miles13
Ehren5.5 miles14
Shady Hills6.1 miles15
Drexel6.4 miles17
Dupree Gardens7.1 miles17
South Masaryktown7.8 miles13
Land O' Lakes7.9 miles17

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.

Wikidata item Q122595798The 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 294768. 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.