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Leto, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Tampa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33614. The Survey maps it on the Citrus Park quadrangle.

Leto within Hillsborough County

Then and now

1947 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 51 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Leto, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Leto, surveyed 1947

Compare 1947 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Leto between 1992 and 2020, burning about 250 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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 maintenance10
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Arson/incendiarism4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
30 August 2001Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePAM CALLAHAN PRESERVE (29)
9 July 1992Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 July 1992Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 July 2003Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLONGBOAT
4 June 2000Railroad operations and maintenance2.4 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 June 1995Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 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

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Leto: 2 producers, 1 plant, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Vermiculite, Iron. 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
Florida Steel Corp/ Tampa Fla.IronProducer
Verlite Co/ Tampa, Fla.VermiculitePlant
Bishop & Buttrey, Inc. - #83SandProducer
Dot Tampa - Benjamin 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
West Park0.1 miles17
Egypt Lake1.2 miles18
Drew Park1.9 miles20
Mullis City2.1 miles17
Sweetwater Creek2.4 miles20
Goldstein2.4 miles18
Carrollwood3.0 miles18
Town 'n' Country3.2 miles17

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 LetoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6533452The 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 2407587. 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.