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Gulf Harbors, Florida

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the New Port Richey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34652. It lies near Green Key. The Survey maps it on the Tarpon Springs quadrangle.

Gulf Harbors within Pasco County

Then and now

1943 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 52 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Gulf Harbors, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Gulf Harbors, surveyed 1943

Compare 1943 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

97 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Gulf Harbors between 1992 and 2020, burning about 597 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 37 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
Arson/incendiarism37
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural10
Recreation and ceremony8
Railroad operations and maintenance4
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
23 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service51/ANCLOTE FIRE-0987
17 September 2013Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMILLER BAYOU (51)
17 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 August 1997Natural28 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 August 2006Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Service51/AVERY FIRE/0839
7 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceRUSHMORE (51)
4 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 July 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pasco County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gulf Harbors in 2 storm reports in 2010: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
April 2010LightningGulf Harbors$12,000Lightning struck just outside of a home on Pilots Place in New Port Richey causing damage inside and outside the home. The bolt struck a palm tree on the side of the house, damaging several spots along the tree's trunk, leaving marks on the ground next to the tree, shattering a large potted plant, breaking up a portion of the sea wall, and rupturing a gas line. Inside, the skylight dome fell into the living room shattering a glass table top as it fell and the windows were blown out on that side of the house. No one was injured inside the house.
March 2010Thunderstorm WindGulf Harbors$5,000The pool cages on two homes on Bayway Court in the Gulf Landings Subdivision sustained damage.

Every storm recorded in Pasco 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
Beacon Lakes1.8 miles17
Beacon Square1.8 miles18
New Port Richey2.2 miles17
Elfers2.3 miles17
Port Richey3.3 miles15
Holiday3.4 miles17
Forest Hills4.2 miles17
Anclote4.2 miles18

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 Gulf HarborsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5617492The 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 283494. 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.

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.