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Keysville, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Wimauma-Riverview census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33547. It stands on West Branch South Prong Alafia River. The Survey maps it on the Keysville quadrangle.

Keysville 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 Keysville, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Keysville, surveyed 1955

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

143 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 143 fires within 5 miles of Keysville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,603 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 12 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Railroad operations and maintenance27
Debris and open burning22
Natural20
Equipment and vehicle use15
Arson/incendiarism12
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking1

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 2015Equipment and vehicle use50 acresFlorida Forest ServiceDREAM OAK (53)
30 August 1997Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 August 1994Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFlorida Forest Service29 FIFTY CENT FIRE
12 August 1993Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 July 1998Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 July 2011Natural20 acresFlorida Forest ServiceNICHOL PINES (53)
18 July 2020Natural75 acresFlorida Forest ServiceNEW WALES PLANT (53)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hillsborough County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Keysville: 4 plants, 3 past producers, 3 producers, 1 prospect. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Water, Free, Fluorine-Fluorite, 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
Lithia-BoyettePhosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Water, Free, Fluorine-FluoriteProspect
Hopewell MinePhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, UraniumProducer1985
Nichols MinePhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, UraniumPast Producer1915, 1970
Hillsborough MinesPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer
Imc Agrico - HopewellPhosphorus-PhosphatesProducerCollophane
Imc Agrico - New WalesPhosphorus-PhosphatesProducerCollophane
New Wales ImcPhosphorus-PhosphatesPlant
New Wales Phosphoric Acid PlantPhosphorus-PhosphatesUnknown
Nichols Imc-AgricoPhosphorus-PhosphatesPlant

Every working recorded in Hillsborough County

Storms near this place

1 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Keysville in 1 storm report in 1993: 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
January 1993Thunderstorm WindKeysville$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines.

Every storm 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
Edison1.6 miles12
Welcome2.3 miles12
Aldermans Ford2.7 miles12
Pinecrest3.0 miles12
Hopewell4.4 miles12
Lithia4.4 miles12
Pleasant Grove4.7 miles13
Bealsville5.3 miles12

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 KeysvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6398527The 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 285093. 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.