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Jessamine, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Central Pasco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33523. The Survey maps it on the Spring Lake quadrangle.

Jessamine within Pasco County

Then and now

1954 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 24 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Jessamine, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Jessamine, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

81 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Jessamine between 1992 and 2018, burning about 883 acres in total. 5 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 burning26
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Natural5
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
5 September 2007Smoking1.5 acresFlorida Forest Service51/LYNAN FIRE/1116
27 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 September 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFlorida Forest Service27/ST CLAIR ISLAND FIRE/0915
24 July 2005Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service51/RAVINE FIRE/0544
14 July 1995Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 June 2000Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pasco 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 Jessamine: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Dot Dade City - Clay MineClayUnknown

Every working recorded in Pasco County

Storms near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jessamine in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2011: 1 tornado, 1 hail, 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
June 2011Thunderstorm WindJessamine$10,000There were numerous trees down on and around Interstate 75 near the northern Pasco County line. This area included trees downed on James Road near Jessamine Road and Blanton Road, on Interstate 75, on Johnson Road, and along Lake Iola Road.
June 2008HailJessamine-Penny size hail was reported near Mud Lake.
July 2000Tornado (F0)Jessamine-A Skywarn Spotter reported that tornado briefly touched down near the intersection of County Road 581 and Johnston Road, approximately six miles west of Jessimine, in rural north central Pasco county.

Every storm recorded in Pasco 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
Chipco Township (historical)1.1 miles15
Blanton1.3 miles12
Chukuchatta (historical)1.8 miles15
Saint Joseph2.8 miles15
Tommytown4.4 miles12
Dade City5.2 miles14
Trilby5.2 miles12
Saint Leo5.3 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 294817. 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.