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Palm, 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 33604. It stands on Curiosity Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sulphur Springs quadrangle.

Palm 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 Palm, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Palm, surveyed 1944

Compare 1944 against another survey:

On record in Palm

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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

11 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Palm between 1992 and 2018, burning about 61 acres in total. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
30 August 2001Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 May 1994Railroad operations and maintenance8.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 May 1994Natural30 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 May 1992Misuse of fire by a minor10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 April 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 April 2016Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceROWLETTE PARK (29)
29 March 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service29 131STREET FIRE
14 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service29 MOSI

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hillsborough County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Palm: 3 plants, 2 unknowns, 2 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Vermiculite, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Standard Gypsum Corp.Gypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
Tampa Cargil Inc.Phosphorus-PhosphatesPlant
Tampa Cement MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Verlite Co/ Tampa, Fla.VermiculitePlant
Bishop & Buttrey, Inc. - #83SandProducer
Kash & Karry Food Stores, Inc. - Harney Road 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
Citrus Park1.0 miles17
Sulphur Springs1.4 miles18
Altos Verdes2.1 miles18
Egypt Lake2.5 miles18
Del Rio2.7 miles18
Goldstein2.8 miles18
Ybor City2.9 miles17
Gardenville3.2 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2484546. 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.