Gulf City, Florida

The same ground, surveyed 44 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1944 1988

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 1 record

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

• A.M. Lamb Houselisted 2007 · 0.9 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.

• 1944 USGS Ruskin quadrangle1:31680
• 1947 USGS Ruskin quadrangle1:25000
• 1956 USGS Ruskin 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

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Gulf City between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,013 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 16 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.

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:

• Ruskin
• Sun City
• Valroy
• Apollo Beach
• Fort Lonely
• North Ruskin

Every fire recorded in Hillsborough County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Gulf City: 7 producers, 1 unknown. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 Gulf City in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2018: 3 flood, 1 dust devil, 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.

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 283487. 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.