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Port Lonesome, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Zephyrhills census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33525. The Survey maps it on the Branchborough quadrangle.

Port Lonesome within Pasco County

Then and now

1955 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 23 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Port Lonesome, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Port Lonesome, surveyed 1955

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

76 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Port Lonesome between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,981 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 6 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
Railroad operations and maintenance17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
28 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance8.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 July 2010Natural175 acresFlorida Forest Service53 PHILMAN LAKE COMMAND
17 July 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 July 1995Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 July 1995Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 June 2006Natural6.2 acresFlorida Forest Service51/PASCO FIRE/0639
4 June 2004Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCATHY COMMAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pasco County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Port Lonesome: 3 producers, 2 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Peat, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Morrel Limerock MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Imc Fertilizer, Inc. - Morrell Limerock MineLimestone, GeneralUnknownLimestone
International Minerals and Chem. - MorrellLimestone, GeneralProducer
Steams Peat - Steams PitPeatProducerPeat
WRB Enterprizes, Inc. - WRB's Peat MinePeatUnknownPeat

Every working recorded in Pasco 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
Branchborough1.0 miles14
Lumberton2.4 miles14
Blue Lake2.7 miles14
Richland2.8 miles14
Vitis2.8 miles14
Ellerslie3.9 miles14
Orange Grove Villas5.2 miles14
Zephyrhills5.5 miles15

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.

Wikidata item Q122593368The 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 295558. 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.