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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.

Hopewell Gardens within Hillsborough County

Then and now

1955 to 1988

The 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 sheet of Hopewell Gardens, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Hopewell Gardens, surveyed 1955

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

84 since 1992

Regional 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 maintenance21
Debris and open burning16
Equipment and vehicle use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Arson/incendiarism9
Fireworks1
Other causes1
Smoking1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSYDNEY DOVER (29)
23 June 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 June 2015Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCORONET (29)
21 June 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 June 2011Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceALSOBROOK (29)
10 June 1993Debris and open burning4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 June 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceNESMITH
4 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHOPEWELL (29)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hillsborough County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Agglite DebrisPhosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Magnesite, Iron, Aluminum, Fluorine-FluoritePast Producer1935
East Pierce DepositPhosphorus-Phosphates, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, Free, Aluminum, Fluorine-FluoriteProspect1920
Hopewell MinePhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, UraniumProducer1985
Dot Tampa - Cason MineSandUnknownSand
Imc Agrico - HopewellPhosphorus-PhosphatesProducerCollophane
Lewis Pogue - Pogue MineSandUnknown
Little Wheels, Inc. - Wellman-Lord Trust MineSandUnknown
Plant City CfPhosphorus-PhosphatesPlant
Red Barn Farm Excavation - Red Barn MineSandUnknown
Willis Ekhoff - Ekhoff MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Hillsborough 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
Trapnell1.5 miles12
Beattys Corner2.4 miles13
Coronet2.6 miles12
Plant City2.8 miles16
Turkey Creek3.0 miles13
Bealsville3.5 miles12
Hopewell3.5 miles12
Shilow4.2 miles16

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 GardensAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5900351The 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.