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Loyce, Florida

13 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 34610. It lies near Jumping Gully. The Survey maps it on the Masaryktown quadrangle.

Loyce 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 Loyce, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Loyce, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

163 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 163 fires within 5 miles of Loyce between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,821 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 15 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 maintenance48
Natural25
Equipment and vehicle use21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Debris and open burning18
Arson/incendiarism15
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 1996Smoking1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 September 1995Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBOWMAN RD (51)
13 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresFlorida Forest Service51/PAINTER FIRE/0623
8 August 2000Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 August 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 August 1997Natural7.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 August 1993Natural15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pasco County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Loyce in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 3 hail, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. 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
December 2022Tornado (EF1)Loyce$50,000NWS survey determined that an EF-1 tornado touched down in|extreme northern Pasco County south of Masaryktown then moved|into Hernando County before dissipating a few miles west of|Interstate 75. Primary damage was near beginning of track where a|home suffered roof damage. Elsewhere, most damage consisted of|snapped or uprooted trees as the tornado tracked mostly over|forested area.
July 2018LightningLoyce$5,000Pasco Emergency Management reported that lightning caused a shed fire in Spring Hill.
May 2014HailLoyce-Pictures were received of quarter to half dollar sized hail near East Linden Estates along County Line Road.
April 2010HailLoyce-The public reported nickel sized hail in Shady Hills.
July 2008HailLoyce-Penny size hail was reported along County Line Road west of the Suncoast Parkway.

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
Greenfield2.1 miles14
South Masaryktown3.6 miles13
Shady Hills3.6 miles15
Fivay Junction4.3 miles14
Darby6.9 miles14
Ehren8.1 miles14
Pasco8.8 miles14
Drexel9.6 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295421. 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.

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.