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Jolly Corner, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Brandon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33584. The Survey maps it on the Thonotosassa quadrangle.

Jolly Corner within Hillsborough County

Then and now

1943 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 52 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Jolly Corner, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Jolly Corner, surveyed 1943

Compare 1943 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Jolly Corner between 1992 and 2019, burning about 202 acres in total. 1 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
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism3
Fireworks2
Natural1

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
29 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service29 TATE
9 June 2006Fireworks1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service29 DEERWOOD
8 May 1997Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 May 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 May 1992Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 May 1994Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 May 2017Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceKELLY LANE (29)
13 May 1996Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hillsborough County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Jolly Corner: 2 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Peat, Magnesite. 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
Unnamed Peat DepositPeat, MagnesiteOccurrence
F.E. Stearns Peat - Stearns PitPeatProducer
Azzarelli Development Corp. - Pruit Road PitSandProducer
Dot Tampa - Pruitt MineSandUnknownSand
Dot Tampa - Williams MineSandUnknownSand

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
Kennedy Hill0.7 miles16
Mango Hills0.8 miles16
Seffner1.6 miles16
Mango1.9 miles16
Clarkwild3.6 miles16
Antioch3.7 miles16
Snows Corner3.7 miles16
Temple Terrace Junction3.8 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.

Wikidata item Q122595966The 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 284899. 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.