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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.

Fort De Soto within Pinellas County

Then and now

1921 to 1988

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Fort De Soto, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Fort De Soto, surveyed 1921

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

3 since 1995

Regional 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 ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
4 July 1995Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresEgmont Key National Wildlife RefugeWEST BEACH
26 July 2016Natural79 acresEgmont Key National Wildlife RefugeEGMONT KEY
2 November 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreEgmont Key National Wildlife RefugePILOT TOWN

Every fire recorded in Pinellas 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
Tierra Verde5.3 miles17
Don Ce-Sar Place (historical)6.5 miles17
Bayway7.0 miles17
Point Brittany7.1 miles17
Belle Vista Beach (historical)7.1 miles17
Saint Pete Beach7.6 miles17
Broadwater8.1 miles17
Bahia Shores8.3 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 Q122540545The 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.