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Fort Lonesome, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Wimauma-Riverview census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33547. It stands on Alderman Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Lonesome quadrangle. It stands 121 feet above sea level.

Fort Lonesome within Hillsborough County

Then and now

1956 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 32 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 Lonesome, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Fort Lonesome, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

76 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Fort Lonesome between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,500 acres in total. 21 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
Natural21
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Equipment and vehicle use12
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1
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
26 September 2012Natural575 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTHATCHER ROAD (29)
17 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenance30 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2007Natural30 acresFlorida Forest Service29 BETHLEHEM
5 August 2005Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Service29 SESAME STREET
3 July 2011Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Service4 CORNERS (29)
13 July 1999Natural150 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 June 2000Natural600 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 June 2019Natural160 acresFlorida Forest ServiceFORT LONESOME 2 (29)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hillsborough County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Fort Lonesome: 5 producers, 2 prospects, 1 unknown. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Water, Free, Fluorine-Fluorite, Uranium, Water, Free, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Magnesite, Iron, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Fluorine-Fluorite, Uranium. 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
Arco-Stanaland RanchPhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, Water, Free, UraniumProducer
Big Four MinePhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Calcium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, MagnesiteProducer1910, 1977
Four Corners DevelopmentPhosphorus-Phosphates, Fluorine-Fluorite, UraniumProspect1920, 1984
Hunt Brothers RanchPhosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Water, Free, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Magnesite, IronProducer
S. E. HillsboroughPhosphorus-Phosphates, MagnesiteProducer
Farmland Hillsborough ReservePhosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Water, Free, Fluorine-FluoriteUnknown1930
First Mississippi Chem. TractPhosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Water, Free, Fluorine-FluoriteProspect
Lonesome MinePhosphorus-PhosphatesProducer1976

Every working recorded in Hillsborough County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Lonesome in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2016Tornado (EF0)Fort Lonesome-A brief tornado moved through an open field near the Mosaic Phosphate Facility near Fort Lonesome.

Every storm 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
Lillibridge6.3 miles12
Balm7.2 miles16
Wimauma8.1 miles14
Boyette8.8 miles12
Welcome9.3 miles12
Pinecrest10.0 miles12
Lithia10.2 miles12
Fish Hawk10.6 miles12

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 Fort LonesomeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5471541The 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 294778. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.