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Highpoint, Florida

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Clearwater census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33760. It stands on Long Branch. The Survey maps it on the Safety Harbor quadrangle.

Highpoint within Pinellas County

Then and now

1921 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Highpoint, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Highpoint, surveyed 1921

Compare 1921 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 20 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

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Highpoint between 1992 and 2016, burning about 296 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 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 maintenance5
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1
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 September 1996Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 August 1997Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2001Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 July 1993Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 July 1995Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 June 2000Equipment and vehicle use60 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 June 1994Natural85 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 June 2000Smoking2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pinellas County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Highpoint: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Largo Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pinellas County

Storms near this place

5 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Highpoint in 5 storm reports between 2013 and 2022: 3 lightning, 1 heavy rain, 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
August 2016LightningHighpoint$400,000Lightning struck a house and started a fire in the attic. The fire smoldered for an hour or so before flames ensued and ultimately the house was destroyed. The structure never collapsed but the inside of the house has been gutted.
September 2022LightningHighpoint$100,000EM reports residential structure fire at Melrose on the Bay Apartment Homes complex due to a lightning strike.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindHighpoint$20,000State emergency management and broadcast media reported damage to manufactured homes from a gustnado. Cell phone video showed brief swirling winds but no condensation funnel. The winds snapped wooden sign posts and pulled vinyl skirting and siding off of some of the homes, although nearby tree branches appeared unaffected.
June 2013LightningHighpoint$1,000The Pinellas County 911 call center reported minor damage to a shed caused by a lightning strike on Belcher Road in Largo.
September 2013Heavy RainHighpoint-Broadcast media relayed a report of street flooding up to the bumpers of cars in Clearwater near East Bay Drive and U.S. 19.

Every storm recorded in Pinellas 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
South Highpoint0.0 miles20
High Point0.4 miles20
Four Corners0.9 miles20
Bayview3.0 miles20
Feather Sound3.0 miles20
Ulmerton3.4 miles15
Largo4.0 miles15
Cross Bayou4.2 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 HighpointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14685897The 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 1867154. 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.