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Pinecrest, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Wimauma-Riverview census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33547. It stands on North Prong Alafia River. The Survey maps it on the Lithia quadrangle.

Pinecrest within Hillsborough County

Then and now

1955 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 33 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pinecrest, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Pinecrest, surveyed 1955

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

109 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Pinecrest between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,122 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 11 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
Natural20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Railroad operations and maintenance16
Debris and open burning16
Equipment and vehicle use12
Arson/incendiarism11
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking1

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
22 September 2011Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBROWNING (29)
30 August 1997Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 August 1994Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 August 1993Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 July 1993Natural11 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 July 1992Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 July 1998Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hillsborough County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Pinecrest: 2 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Water, Free, Fluorine-Fluorite, Magnesite, Uranium, Iron, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, 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
Agglite DebrisPhosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Magnesite, Iron, Aluminum, Fluorine-FluoritePast Producer1935
Hillsborough Co.- Farmland/BrewsterPhosphorus-Phosphates, Magnesite, Uranium, Iron, Aluminum, Fluorine-FluoriteProspect1950
Lithia-BoyettePhosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Water, Free, Fluorine-FluoriteProspect
Hillsborough MinesPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hillsborough County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pinecrest in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2013: 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
August 2013Thunderstorm WindPinecrest$8,000Trained spotter reports numerous 3 to 4 inch diameter tree branches down on Benjamin Road just north of Sligh Avenue. A power pole and wires were leaning into a tree on the side of the road.
June 2008HailPinecrest-Nickel size hail was reported near the intersection of N Dale Mabry Highway and W Hillsborough Avenue.
June 2008HailPinecrest-Nickel size hail was reported near the intersection of W Hillsborough Avenue and N Himes 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
Aldermans Ford0.9 miles12
Lithia1.5 miles12
Welcome2.4 miles12
Keysville3.0 miles12
Fish Hawk3.5 miles12
Pleasant Grove4.1 miles13
Edison4.3 miles12
Lillibridge4.4 miles12

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 PinecrestAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19987575The 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 288922. 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.