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Goldstein, Florida

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Tampa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33618. The Survey maps it on the Sulphur Springs quadrangle.

Goldstein within Hillsborough County

Then and now

1944 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 51 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Goldstein, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Goldstein, surveyed 1944

Compare 1944 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Goldstein between 1992 and 2020, burning about 217 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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 maintenance7
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2

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
30 August 2001Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 August 1998Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 July 1992Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 June 1993Misuse of fire by a minor40 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 June 1995Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 May 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 May 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 May 1992Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hillsborough County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Goldstein: 2 producers, 1 plant, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Vermiculite, Iron. 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
Florida Steel Corp/ Tampa Fla.IronProducer
Verlite Co/ Tampa, Fla.VermiculitePlant
Bishop & Buttrey, Inc. - #83SandProducer
Dot Tampa - Benjamin MineSandUnknownSand

Every working recorded in Hillsborough County

Storms near this place

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goldstein in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2015: 4 hail, 2 lightning, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2015LightningGoldstein$20,000Print and broadcast media outlets reported that a condominium building in Carollwood was struck by lightning Saturday, that smouldered overnight. The fire burned through a ceiling at one point and triggered the sprinklers, extinguishing the fire. The time of the lightning strike was estimated from radar.
June 2008LightningGoldstein$10,000Lightning struck a home on Duck Key Court in Carrollwood causing a two-alarm attic fire.
March 2014Thunderstorm WindGoldstein$2,000Broadcast media relayed a report of a power pole down on a car on Forest Land Drive in Tampa, FL, near the intersection of Gunn Highway and Anderson Road. Time was estimated by radar.
May 2015HailGoldstein-A caller reported quarter size hail falling at the intersection of Gunn Hwy and Anderson Road near Citrus Park.
June 2008HailGoldstein-Nickel size hail was reported near the intersection of N Dale Mabry Highway and W Waters Avenue.
June 2008HailGoldstein-Nickel size hail was reported in Carrollwood near Gunn Highway.
June 2008HailGoldstein-Nickel size hail was reported near the intersection of N Dale Mabry Highway and W Waters Avenue.

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
Carrollwood1.0 miles18
Mullis City1.2 miles17
Egypt Lake1.4 miles18
Sulphur Springs2.0 miles18
West Park2.3 miles17
Leto2.4 miles17
North Tampa Heights2.5 miles18
Lake Magdalene2.8 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 300088. 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.