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Orient Park, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Tampa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33619. It stands on Sixmile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brandon quadrangle.

Orient Park within Hillsborough County

Then and now

1921 to 1999

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Orient Park, surveyed 1999
Topographic sheet of Orient Park, surveyed 1921

Compare 1921 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

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Orient Park between 1992 and 2017, burning about 328 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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 use4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Arson/incendiarism3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning2
Natural1
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
20 September 2017Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMCAY BAY (29)
29 July 1993Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 July 1994Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 June 2006Fireworks1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service29 DEERWOOD
7 May 2000Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 May 1994Railroad operations and maintenance8.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 May 1992Railroad operations and maintenance20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 May 1992Misuse of fire by a minorunder 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

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Orient Park: 3 plants, 3 unknowns, 2 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Vermiculite, Iron. 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
Florida Steel Corp/ Tampa Fla.IronProducer
Tampa Cargil Inc.Phosphorus-PhosphatesPlant
Tampa Cement MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Verlite Co/ Tampa, Fla.VermiculitePlant
Bishop & Buttrey, Inc. - #83SandProducer
Dot Tampa - Williams MineSandUnknownSand
Kash & Karry Food Stores, Inc. - Harney Road MineSandUnknown
Star 101 Development, Inc. - Canterbury Lakes MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Hillsborough County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orient Park in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2010: 2 heavy rain, 2 hail, 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
July 2010Thunderstorm WindOrient Park$10,000Several power poles and power lines were downed near the Crosstown Expressway and 50th Street.
July 2010HailOrient Park-Broadcast media relayed a viewer report of quarter sized hail near the Crosstown Expressway and 50th Street.
May 2009HailOrient Park-A trained spotter reported quarter sized hail at the intersection of Palm River Road and Maydell Drive.
July 2008Heavy RainOrient Park-A television news helicopter reported that westbound State Road 60 near US Highway 41 was down to one lane due to street flooding.
July 2008Heavy RainOrient Park-A television news helicopter reported the area around East Broadway Avenue and East Columbus Drive had flooding in parking lots, side streets and a few homes.

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
Sixmile Creek0.8 miles16
South Tampa1.9 miles16
Gardenville2.3 miles17
Palm River2.4 miles17
Clair-Mel City2.9 miles16
Del Rio2.9 miles18
Harney2.9 miles16
Gary3.1 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 Orient ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7102306The 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 288235. 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.