Fort De Soto, Florida
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the St. Petersburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33715. It lies near Mullet Key. The Survey maps it on the Anna Maria quadrangle.
Then and now
1921 to 1988The same ground, surveyed 67 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in Fort De Soto
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Fort Desoto Batterieslisted 1977 · 0.0 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1921 USGS Fort De Soto quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1944 USGS Anna Maria quadrangle1:24000
- 1944 USGS Anna Maria quadrangle1:31680
- 1956 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Anna Maria quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1972 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
3 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Fort De Soto between 1995 and 2016, burning about 81 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 July 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Egmont Key National Wildlife Refuge | WEST BEACH |
| 26 July 2016 | Natural | 79 acres | Egmont Key National Wildlife Refuge | EGMONT KEY |
| 2 November 2010 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Egmont Key National Wildlife Refuge | PILOT TOWN |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tierra Verde | 5.3 miles | 17 | |
| Don Ce-Sar Place (historical) | 6.5 miles | 17 | |
| Bayway | 7.0 miles | 17 | |
| Point Brittany | 7.1 miles | 17 | |
| Belle Vista Beach (historical) | 7.1 miles | 17 | |
| Saint Pete Beach | 7.6 miles | 17 | |
| Broadwater | 8.1 miles | 17 | |
| Bahia Shores | 8.3 miles | 17 |
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 Q122540545 | The 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 295291. 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.









