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Pine Level, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Arcadia West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34266. It stands on Brandy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Limestone quadrangle.

Pine Level within DeSoto County

Then and now

1956 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 32 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pine Level, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Pine Level, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

93 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Pine Level between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,101 acres in total. 10 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 maintenance28
Debris and open burning19
Equipment and vehicle use14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Natural10
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1

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
19 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceFEEDBAG (14)
5 July 1998Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 July 2011Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceNW PINE LEVEL ST. (14)
1 July 2006Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Service14-SURPRISE FIRE-0525
8 June 1996Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 June 2001Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePINE EAGLE (14)
23 June 2000Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeSoto County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Pine Level: 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, Free, Fluorine-Fluorite, Magnesite, Uranium, Aluminum, Iron, Uranium, Magnesite, Iron, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
Desoto-Manatee ReservePhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, FreeProspect1964
Horse Creek, D.E. CarltonPhosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Magnesite, Iron, Aluminum, Fluorine-FluoriteProspect1968
Pine Level DepositPhosphorus-Phosphates, Fluorine-Fluorite, Magnesite, Uranium, Aluminum, IronProspect1967

Every working recorded in DeSoto 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
Tryon2.4 miles13
Lansing5.5 miles14
Belgium (historical)5.7 miles13
Arcadia7.8 miles14
Cubitis8.0 miles13
Brownville9.2 miles13
Nocatee9.3 miles13
Hull10.4 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295540. 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.