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Port Sutton, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Palm River-Gibsonton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33619. It stands on Delaney Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tampa quadrangle.

Port Sutton within Hillsborough County

Then and now

1921 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 74 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 Sutton, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Port Sutton, surveyed 1921

Compare 1921 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

51 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Port Sutton between 1992 and 2018, burning about 770 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 10 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 maintenance15
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Natural4
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
20 September 2017Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMCAY BAY (29)
29 August 1996Equipment and vehicle use20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 July 1996Railroad operations and maintenance9.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 July 1994Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceRIVERVIEW DR II (29)
12 July 2014Natural10 acresFlorida Forest ServiceRIVERVIEW (29)
9 June 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 June 1992Natural35 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

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Port Sutton: 5 plants, 3 unknowns, 1 producer. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Sand, Salt, 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
Standard Gypsum Corp.Gypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
Tampa Cement MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Tampa Salt & Service CompanySaltPlant
Parkway Center Community - Parkway PitSandProducer
Star 101 Development, Inc. - Canterbury Lakes MineSandUnknown
Big Bend TerminalPhosphorus-PhosphatesPlant
Port Sutton Plant & MinePhosphorus-PhosphatesPlant
Tampa Cargil Inc.Phosphorus-PhosphatesPlant
Tampa Phosphoric Acid PlantPhosphorus-PhosphatesUnknown1965

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
Palm River2.8 miles17
Progress Village3.0 miles16
Clair-Mel City3.2 miles16
Gary3.4 miles17
Tampa3.5 miles17
East Tampa3.6 miles18
Palma Ceia4.1 miles17
Ybor City4.1 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 Port SuttonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q15267649The 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 295811. 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.