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Ozona, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Tarpon Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34683. It lies near Smith Islands. The Survey maps it on the Dunedin quadrangle. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Ozona within Pinellas County

Then and now

1943 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 55 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ozona, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Ozona, surveyed 1943

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

21 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Ozona between 1992 and 2018, burning about 203 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 was 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
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
12 July 1994Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 June 2014Misuse of fire by a minor2.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMARINER POINT (52)
21 June 1998Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 June 1994Natural30 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 June 1995Railroad operations and maintenance65 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 June 1995Natural7.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 May 2008Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresFlorida Forest Service52 MARINER'S POINT
30 May 2007Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresFlorida Forest Service52 LK ST.GEORGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pinellas County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ozona in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2018: 3 lightning. 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 2018LightningOzona$50,000A fire reported at a bank in Dunedin was suspected to be caused by a lightning strike.
August 2018LightningOzona$20,000A fire at a mobile home was suspected to have been caused by a lightning strike. The time of the lightning strike was estimated from radar.
October 2014LightningOzona$2,000Pinellas County Emergency Management reported a fire to a shed in Dunedin, believed to be caused by a lightning strike. The call was received by 911 at 5:08 pm EDT.

Every storm recorded in Pinellas 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
Palm Harbor0.9 miles17
Acklocknayke (historical)1.1 miles17
Crystal Beach1.5 miles17
Harbor View2.0 miles17
Curlew2.1 miles16
Wall Springs2.2 miles17
Saint George2.7 miles16
Dunedin Isles3.0 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 OzonaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7116616The 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 288348. 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.

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.