Hopewell Gardens, Florida
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Plant City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33566. The Survey maps it on the Dover quadrangle. It stands 141 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1955 to 1988The same ground, surveyed 33 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1955 USGS Dover 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
Fires near this place
84 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Hopewell Gardens between 1992 and 2018, burning about 832 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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 | 21 |
| Debris and open burning | 16 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | SYDNEY DOVER (29) |
| 23 June 1998 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 22 June 2015 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | CORONET (29) |
| 21 June 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 14 June 2011 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | ALSOBROOK (29) |
| 10 June 1993 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 1 June 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | NESMITH |
| 4 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | HOPEWELL (29) |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Hopewell Gardens: 5 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 past producer, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Sand, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Uranium, Magnesite, Iron, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agglite Debris | Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Magnesite, Iron, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite | Past Producer | 1935 | |
| East Pierce Deposit | Phosphorus-Phosphates, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, Free, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite | Prospect | 1920 | |
| Hopewell Mine | Phosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium | Producer | 1985 | |
| Dot Tampa - Cason Mine | Sand | Unknown | Sand | |
| Imc Agrico - Hopewell | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Producer | Collophane | |
| Lewis Pogue - Pogue Mine | Sand | Unknown | ||
| Little Wheels, Inc. - Wellman-Lord Trust Mine | Sand | Unknown | ||
| Plant City Cf | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Plant | ||
| Red Barn Farm Excavation - Red Barn Mine | Sand | Unknown | ||
| Willis Ekhoff - Ekhoff Mine | Sand | Unknown |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trapnell | 1.5 miles | 12 | |
| Beattys Corner | 2.4 miles | 13 | |
| Coronet | 2.6 miles | 12 | |
| Plant City | 2.8 miles | 16 | |
| Turkey Creek | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| Bealsville | 3.5 miles | 12 | |
| Hopewell | 3.5 miles | 12 | |
| Shilow | 4.2 miles | 16 |
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 Hopewell Gardens | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5900351 | 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 2483559. 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.






