BlockMitchell Beach, Florida
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Boca Ciega census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33708. It lies near Little Bird Key. The Survey maps it on the Seminole quadrangle.
Then and now
1921 to 1995The same ground, surveyed 74 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Compare 1921 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1921 USGS Sand Key quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Bay Pines quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Bay Pines quadrangle1:31680
- 1956 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Seminole quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1995 USGS Seminole quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
2 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Mitchell Beach between 1992 and 2006, burning about 11 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 maintenance | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 May 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 3 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Florida Forest Service | 52 SEMINOLE PARK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunshine Beach | 0.8 miles | 15 | |
| Madeira Beach | 1.0 miles | 15 | |
| Treasure Island | 1.5 miles | 15 | |
| The Jungle | 1.7 miles | 15 | |
| Bay Pines | 1.9 miles | 15 | |
| Redington Beach | 2.0 miles | 15 | |
| Boca Ciega | 2.1 miles | 15 | |
| Sunset Beach | 2.7 miles | 15 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122594303 | The 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 286999. 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.