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Griffins Corner, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Zolfo Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33873. The Survey maps it on the Griffins Corner quadrangle.

Griffins Corner within Hardee 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 Griffins Corner, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Griffins Corner, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

218 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 218 fires within 5 miles of Griffins Corner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,286 acres in total. 7 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 maintenance74
Debris and open burning55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Equipment and vehicle use23
Natural7
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Smoking5
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony5
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service25-MANLEY RD FIRE-0426
26 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service25-TRASH PILE-0420
17 September 2017Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSTENSTROM (25)
17 September 2004Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Service366 - SUNSET FIRE
30 August 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 August 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardee County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Griffins Corner: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Water, Free, 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
Hardee County Unknown OwnershipsPhosphorus-Phosphates, Water, FreeOccurrence
Mobil AreaPhosphorus-Phosphates, Water, Free, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, UraniumProspect

Every working recorded in Hardee 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
Lemon Grove3.1 miles15
Wauchula4.3 miles15
Zolfo Springs4.7 miles13
Coker4.8 miles15
Wauchula Hills5.3 miles15
Moffitt6.8 miles13
Torrey7.0 miles15
Bowling Green8.4 miles15

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 Q122550251The 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 294792. 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.