Gary, Florida

The same ground, surveyed 74 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1921 1995

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 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• El Centro Espanol de TampaNational Historic Landmark · listed 1988 · 0.9 miles away
• Palmetto Beach Historic Districtlisted 2012 · 0.4 miles away

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.

• 1921 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:31680
• 1947 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1959 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1972 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
• 1981 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1995 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Gary between 1992 and 2018, burning about 86 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Gardenville
• Tampa
• Ybor City
• Orient Park
• Citrus Park
• Palm

Every fire recorded in Hillsborough County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Gary: 5 plants, 3 unknowns, 2 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Salt, Vermiculite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Hillsborough County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gary in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.

Every storm recorded in Hillsborough County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 282952. 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.