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Moffitt, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Zolfo Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33890. The Survey maps it on the Zolfo Springs quadrangle.

Moffitt within Hardee County

Then and now

1956 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 32 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Moffitt, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Moffitt, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

149 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of Moffitt between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,314 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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 maintenance51
Debris and open burning38
Equipment and vehicle use24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
27 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 July 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 July 1996Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 June 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 June 2006Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFlorida Forest Service25-KLINE FIRE-0470
6 June 2006Debris and open burning4.0 acresFlorida Forest Service25-SASSER FIRE-0462
6 June 2006Debris and open burning6.0 acresFlorida Forest Service25-PALLET FIRE-0461
4 June 2008Natural25 acresFlorida Forest Service25-LITTLE PIG FIRE-0273

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardee County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Moffitt: 4 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Magnesite, Iron, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Fluorine-Fluorite, Aluminum, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, Free, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
Farmland/Ona Area-Small OwnershipPhosphorus-Phosphates, Fluorine-Fluorite, Aluminum, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, FreeProspect1965
Zolfo Springs Area Small OwnershipsPhosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Fluorine-FluoriteProspectSurface
B. H. GriffinPhosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Magnesite, Iron, Aluminum, Fluorine-FluoriteProspectSurface
Zolfo / Rhone-Poulenc ChemicalsPhosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Magnesite, Iron, Aluminum, Fluorine-FluoriteProspectChemical Sediment, Marine

Every working recorded in Hardee County

Storms near this place

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moffitt in 1 storm report in 2004: 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
June 2004Thunderstorm WindMoffitt-Fifteen large trees were downed in the city of Moffitt due to a severe thunderstorm.

Every storm recorded in Hardee 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
Zolfo Springs2.7 miles13
Buchanan3.0 miles13
Oak Grove4.4 miles13
Sweetwater5.9 miles13
Wauchula6.4 miles15
Bridges6.6 miles13
Ona6.7 miles13
Griffins Corner6.8 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 294855. 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.