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North Tampa Heights, Florida

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Tampa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33612. The Survey maps it on the Sulphur Springs quadrangle.

North Tampa Heights within Hillsborough County

Then and now

1944 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 51 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of North Tampa Heights, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of North Tampa Heights, surveyed 1944

Compare 1944 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of North Tampa Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 313 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 4 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 maintenance10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1
Fireworks1

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
4 September 2009Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service29 RIVER PARK
30 August 2001Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 August 1998Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 July 1992Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBURNISTON DRIVE (29)
3 June 2000Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 June 1993Misuse of fire by a minor40 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 June 1995Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

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 North Tampa Heights: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand. 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
Centex Real Estate Corp. - Carrolton Lakes 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
Lake Magdalene0.8 miles18
Nowatney0.9 miles18
Carrollwood2.1 miles18
Goldstein2.5 miles18
Sulphur Springs2.9 miles18
Chapman3.0 miles18
Northdale3.1 miles17
Mullis City3.2 miles17

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 Q122572534The 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 300096. 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.