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Lumberton, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Zephyrhills census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33540. The Survey maps it on the Dade City quadrangle.

Lumberton within Pasco County

Then and now

1955 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 23 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lumberton, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Lumberton, surveyed 1955

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

65 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Lumberton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,729 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 8 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 maintenance14
Natural12
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Fireworks2

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
28 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 July 1995Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 June 2006Natural6.2 acresFlorida Forest Service51/PASCO FIRE/0639
30 June 1998Natural10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 June 1998Natural300 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 June 2006Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Service51/DISTANT FIRE/0681
14 June 2000Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 June 2001Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pasco County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Lumberton: 6 producers, 1 unknown. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Peat. 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
International Minerals and Chem. - MorrellLimestone, GeneralProducer
Plaza Materials - Plaza Materials MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Steams Peat - Steams PitPeatProducerPeat
WRB Enterprizes, Inc. - WRB's Peat MinePeatUnknownPeat
Morrel Limerock MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Polk County MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Z Rock MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Pasco County

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lumberton in 1 storm report in 2018: 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
December 2018Thunderstorm WindLumberton$137,000Emergency Management reported 73 manufactured homes sustained damage in Forest Hills Mobile Home Park. Most of the homes sustained minor damage, although 5 had major damage. No damage was reported outside the community.

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
Vitis1.1 miles14
Richland1.2 miles14
Port Lonesome2.4 miles14
Branchborough2.5 miles14
Orange Grove Villas3.1 miles14
Ellerslie3.1 miles14
Zephyrhills3.3 miles15
Fort King Acres3.4 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 286213. 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.