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Hidden River, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Interior County census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34240. The Survey maps it on the Old Myakka quadrangle.

Hidden River within Sarasota County

Then and now

1944 to 1988

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.

Topographic sheet of Hidden River, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Hidden River, surveyed 1944

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Hidden River between 1992 and 2020, burning about 586 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning12
Natural11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism3
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
9 August 2014Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMURPHY RD (58)
10 August 2012Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMYAKKA VALLEY RANCH (58)
29 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 June 2001Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 June 2007Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Service58-MYAKKA FIRE -0372
25 June 2004Natural8.0 acresFlorida Forest Service315-SANDPINE FIRE
24 June 2004Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service311-REX FIRE
22 June 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service41-KLINE FIRE-0351

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sarasota County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hidden River in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2013: 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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
June 2009Tornado (EF1)Hidden River$350,000The tornado touched down along Fruitville Road, snapping a few trees, and then traveled south into a plant farm. It tore two metal beams from the foundation of a metal building on the farm and then moved across a field of more than two dozen greenhouses, destroying or seriously damaging all but one. The tornado then continued south into a wooded area, where it damaged a few more trees before lifting. Winds were estimated around 95mph.
June 2013HailHidden River-SKYWARN spotter SAR-179 reported nickle sized hail 8 miles east of interstate 75 on Fruitville Road.

Every storm recorded in Sarasota 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
Old Myakka1.0 miles14
Miakka1.6 miles14
Honore3.9 miles11
Utopia5.2 miles14
Tatum Ridge7.9 miles13
Shiney Town8.5 miles11
Fordville8.6 miles13
Tatum8.8 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295348. 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.