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Mount Enon, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Plant City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33565. The Survey maps it on the Plant City East quadrangle.

Mount Enon within Hillsborough County

Then and now

1944 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 50 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mount Enon, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Mount Enon, surveyed 1944

Compare 1944 against another survey:

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.

Fires near this place

108 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Mount Enon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,105 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 10 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 maintenance36
Debris and open burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism10
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony2
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
2 September 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHAMILTON (53)
8 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service845
8 August 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 August 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 June 2000Natural30 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 June 2015Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCORONET (29)
21 June 2001Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 June 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hillsborough County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Mount Enon: 6 unknowns, 1 plant, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, 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
FridovichPhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Fluorine-FluoriteProspect1936
Plant City CfPhosphorus-PhosphatesPlant
Alvin Futch Co. - Grimmer PitSandProducer
Bishop & Buttrey, Inc. - Wilder Pit #23 MineSandUnknown
Dot Bartow Office - I-4 MineSandUnknown
Dot Tampa - Cason MineSandUnknownSand
Lewis Pogue - Pogue MineSandUnknown
Little Wheels, Inc. - Wellman-Lord Trust MineSandUnknown
Willis Ekhoff - Ekhoff MineSandUnknown

Every working 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
Youmans0.9 miles16
Midway2.4 miles16
Plant City2.5 miles16
Shilow2.9 miles16
Coronet3.5 miles12
Knights4.4 miles16
Hopewell Gardens5.0 miles13
Trapnell5.1 miles12

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 Q122569919The 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 287216. 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.