Forest Hills, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the New Port Richey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34690. The Survey maps it on the Elfers quadrangle.

Forest Hills within Pasco County

Then and now

1943 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 55 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Forest Hills, surveyed 1998

Topographic sheet of Forest Hills, surveyed 1943

Compare 1943 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1943 USGS Elfers quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1944 USGS Elfers quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Elfers quadrangle1:25000
1955 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Elfers quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:100000
1998 USGS Elfers quadrangle1:24000

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 Forest Hills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 941 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 35 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
Arson/incendiarism	35
Misuse of fire by a minor	20
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Natural	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Recreation and ceremony	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
23 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	51/ANCLOTE FIRE-0987
1 September 1999	Natural	20 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
23 August 1997	Natural	28 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
10 August 2020	Natural	102 acres	Florida Forest Service	KEYSTONE BIKE TRAIL (52)**
7 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	RUSHMORE (51)
5 July 2007	Natural	7.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	52 LORA LANE
4 July 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
29 July 1993	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Holiday	0.8 miles	17
Beacon Lakes	2.4 miles	17
Beacon Square	2.5 miles	18
Anclote	2.6 miles	18
Trinity	2.7 miles	17
Elfers	2.7 miles	17
Gulf Harbors	4.2 miles	18
Seven Springs	4.2 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 304164. 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.