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Nowatney, 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 33613. The Survey maps it on the Sulphur Springs quadrangle.

Nowatney 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 Nowatney, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Nowatney, 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

40 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Nowatney between 1992 and 2018, burning about 257 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 2 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 maintenance9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
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
24 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBURNISTON DRIVE (29)
3 June 2000Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 June 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 June 1993Misuse of fire by a minor40 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 May 1997Railroad 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Nowatney: 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

Storms near this place

7 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nowatney in 7 storm reports between 2012 and 2022: 2 heavy rain, 2 lightning, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2014LightningNowatney$100,000Broadcast media and Hillsborough county fire and rescue reported that one apartment building at University Club Apartments caught fire after a suspected lightning strike. The fire was contained to a single building that housed 8 units, and the fire left the building uninhabitable.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindNowatney$50,000State emergency management relayed a report of isolated damage to the gable of a two-story apartment building. The gable was ripped free causing part of the roof to collapse into the an apartment. No other damage was reported nearby.
September 2017LightningNowatney$50,000Hillsborough County Emergency Management officials reported damage to an apartment building that was likely caused by a lightning strike. A total of 38 residents were displaced because of the fire. No injuries were reported.
May 2014Flash FloodNowatney$50,000Long durations of heavy rain fell over northern Tampa and the surrounding areas, with radar storm total precipitation estimates of 6-10 inches being confirmed by mesonet rain gauges in the area. Water levels rose quickly in the areas of heaviest rain, shutting down roads, stranding cars, and entering houses. Hillsborough County Emergency Management reported water entering a house near 56th Street and Fowler Avenue, significant flooding on Fowler Avenue between North 50th and North 56th Streets blocking the entrance to USF, general flooding on North 22nd Street between Busch Boulevard and Fowler Avenue, and flooding at Bougainvillea Avenue and North 30th Street.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindNowatney$10,000Power lines were reported down on Palm Drive.
December 2022Heavy RainNowatney-Street flooding in the area of East Fowler and 30th Street.
June 2012Heavy RainNowatney-Heavy rain caused street flooding near Bruce B. Downs Boulevard and Fowler Avenue.

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
North Tampa Heights0.9 miles18
Lake Magdalene1.3 miles18
Chapman2.6 miles18
Carrollwood2.9 miles18
Altos Verdes3.4 miles18
Sulphur Springs3.4 miles18
Goldstein3.4 miles18
Northdale3.4 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.

Wikipedia article on NowatneyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7066357The 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 295494. 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.