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Limona, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Brandon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33510. The Survey maps it on the Brandon quadrangle.

Limona within Hillsborough County

Then and now

1921 to 1999

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Limona, surveyed 1999
Topographic sheet of Limona, surveyed 1921

Compare 1921 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

53 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Limona between 1992 and 2019, burning about 487 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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 maintenance17
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism5
Debris and open burning3
Natural2
Fireworks1

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
5 August 1999Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 July 1992Natural10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 July 1993Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 June 1993Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 June 1993Railroad operations and maintenance7.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 June 1993Railroad operations and maintenance15 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Limona: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand. 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 Tampa - Williams MineSandUnknownSand
Star 101 Development, Inc. - Canterbury Lakes MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Hillsborough County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Limona in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 hail. 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
July 2019HailLimona-no account filed

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
Brandon1.1 miles16
Mango2.4 miles16
South Tampa2.7 miles16
Seffner3.0 miles16
Mango Hills3.3 miles16
Sixmile Creek3.3 miles16
Clair-Mel City3.6 miles16
Valrico3.6 miles13

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 LimonaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6549837The 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 285539. 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.