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Moriczville, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Plant City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33565. The Survey maps it on the Plant City West quadrangle.

Moriczville within Hillsborough County

Then and now

1944 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 34 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Moriczville, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Moriczville, surveyed 1944

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

73 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Moriczville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,746 acres in total. 19 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
Natural19
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1
Smoking1

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
8 September 1996Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 August 1993Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 August 2006Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service53 FAIRMONT
12 August 2006Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service29 VARN PROPERTY
6 July 2006Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service29 BOXER
5 July 1995Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 July 1997Natural40 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 July 2007Natural50 acresFlorida Forest Service29 HAM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hillsborough County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Moriczville: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Plant City Cf Phos. Acid PlantPhosphorus-PhosphatesUnknown1968

Every working recorded in Hillsborough County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moriczville in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 hail. 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
March 2009HailMoriczville-Penny size hail was reported near Highway 39 about 7 miles north of Plant City.

Every storm recorded in Hillsborough 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
Knights3.0 miles16
Midway4.6 miles16
Shilow5.6 miles16
Mount Enon7.0 miles16
Plant City7.2 miles16
Antioch7.3 miles16
Branchton7.3 miles16
Youmans7.8 miles16

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 Q122569598The 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 287137. 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.