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.
Then and now
1921 to 1998The 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.


Compare 1921 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 20 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1921 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1921 USGS St. Petersburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Safety Harbor quadrangle1:31680
- 1947 USGS Safety Harbor quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Safety Harbor quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Safety Harbor quadrangle1:24000, 5 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
- 1998 USGS Safety Harbor quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
25 since 1992Regional 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 maintenance | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1996 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 28 August 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 7 July 2001 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 29 July 1993 | Natural | 20 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 11 July 1995 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 4 June 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 60 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 14 June 1994 | Natural | 85 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 1 June 2000 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Largo Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 2013Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2016 | Lightning | Highpoint | $400,000 | Lightning 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 2022 | Lightning | Highpoint | $100,000 | EM reports residential structure fire at Melrose on the Bay Apartment Homes complex due to a lightning strike. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Highpoint | $20,000 | State 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 2013 | Lightning | Highpoint | $1,000 | The Pinellas County 911 call center reported minor damage to a shed caused by a lightning strike on Belcher Road in Largo. |
| September 2013 | Heavy Rain | Highpoint | - | Broadcast media relayed a report of street flooding up to the bumpers of cars in Clearwater near East Bay Drive and U.S. 19. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Highpoint | 0.0 miles | 20 | |
| High Point | 0.4 miles | 20 | |
| Four Corners | 0.9 miles | 20 | |
| Bayview | 3.0 miles | 20 | |
| Feather Sound | 3.0 miles | 20 | |
| Ulmerton | 3.4 miles | 15 | |
| Largo | 4.0 miles | 15 | |
| Cross Bayou | 4.2 miles | 18 |
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 Highpoint | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14685897 | The 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.












