Rattlesnake, Florida

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1921 1998

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.

• 1921 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1921 USGS St. Petersburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Gandy Bridge quadrangle1:31680
• 1947 USGS Gandy Bridge quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Gandy Bridge quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
• 1956 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1959 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1972 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
• 1981 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1998 USGS Gandy Bridge quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Rattlesnake between 1993 and 2016, burning about 83 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Palma Ceia
• Port Tampa
• Sunset Beach

Every fire recorded in Hillsborough County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rattlesnake: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Every working recorded in Hillsborough County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rattlesnake in 9 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 2 flood, 1 tornado. 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.

Every storm recorded in Hillsborough County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 289479. 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.