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Fuller Heights, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Bartow census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33860. The Survey maps it on the Mulberry quadrangle. 10,467 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 112 feet above sea level.

Fuller Heights within Polk County

Then and now

1949 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 39 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fuller Heights, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Fuller Heights, surveyed 1949

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

334 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 334 fires within 5 miles of Fuller Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 13,851 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 11 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
Railroad operations and maintenance102
Missing data/not specified/undetermined49
Recreation and ceremony44
Equipment and vehicle use37
Debris and open burning31
Natural23
Misuse of fire by a minor23
Arson/incendiarism11
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Smoking5
Fireworks1

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
23 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use50 acresFlorida Forest ServiceDREAM OAK (53)
21 September 2011Natural20 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLITTLE PINE (53)
18 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSEABOARD (53)
18 September 1997Recreation and ceremony1.3 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 September 1999Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 August 1994Natural50 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Fuller Heights: 10 plants, 3 past producers, 3 producers, 2 prospects. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, Free, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, 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
Bonny Lake MinePhosphorus-Phosphates, Magnesite, Uranium, Iron, Aluminum, Water, Free, Fluorine-FluoritePlant1958
Mulberry Limestone Drying MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Nichols MinePhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, UraniumPast Producer1915, 1970
Oak Ridge MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cristina ReservePhosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Fluorine-FluoriteProspect1935
Debris DepositsPhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, FreeProspect1974
MulberryPhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, FreePast Producer
Polk County MinePhosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Fluorine-FluoritePast Producer1974, 1976
Bartow CfPhosphorus-PhosphatesPlant
Bartow Cf Phosphoric Acid PlantPhosphorus-PhosphatesProducer1962

Every working recorded in Polk 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
Prairie Junction0.8 miles17
Willow Oak1.1 miles12
Mulberry1.6 miles17
East Mulberry2.0 miles17
South Mulberry2.0 miles17
Nichols2.2 miles12
Kingsford2.4 miles17
Royster3.1 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.

Wikipedia article on Fuller HeightsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5399994The 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 282852. 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.