Mecca, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Clearwater census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33763. The Survey maps it on the Oldsmar quadrangle.

Mecca within Pinellas County

Then and now

1943 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 52 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mecca, surveyed 1995

Topographic sheet of Mecca, surveyed 1943

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.

1943 USGS Oldsmar quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1944 USGS Oldsmar quadrangle1:31680
1955 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Oldsmar quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:100000
1995 USGS Oldsmar quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Mecca between 1992 and 2017, burning about 227 acres in total. 12 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
Natural	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
15 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
9 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
24 August 1993	Natural	40 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
31 July 2000	Natural	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
31 July 1999	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
30 July 1993	Natural	6.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
20 July 2006	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	52 COCO PLUM
16 July 1997	Natural	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pinellas 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Dunedin	1.6 miles	17
Curlew	2.2 miles	16
Saint George	2.5 miles	16
Dunedin Isles	2.7 miles	17
Harbor View	2.7 miles	17
Bridgeport	2.7 miles	16
Coachman	3.0 miles	20
Harbor Palms	3.0 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 301453. 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.