BlockRio Vista, Florida
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the St. Petersburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33702. The Survey maps it on the Saint Petersburg quadrangle.
Then and now
1921 to 1998The 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.
Compare 1921 against another survey:
On record in Rio Vista
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- Peninsular Fruit Company Buildinglisted 2023 · 1.0 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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 St Petersburg quadrangle1:31680
- 1947 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:25000
- 1956 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS St. Petersburg quadrangle1:24000, 3 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 Saint Petersburg quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
33 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Rio Vista between 1992 and 2017, burning about 502 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 6 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1996 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 14 September 1997 | Natural | 11 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 28 August 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 29 July 1993 | Natural | 20 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 11 July 1995 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 6 June 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 52 NORTH GATE |
| 4 June 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 60 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 14 June 1994 | Natural | 85 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Totstalahoeetska (historical) | 1.2 miles | 18 | |
| Gandy | 1.8 miles | 20 | |
| Shore Acres | 2.9 miles | 20 | |
| Lealman | 2.9 miles | 18 | |
| Pinellas Park | 3.2 miles | 18 | |
| Feather Sound | 4.2 miles | 20 | |
| Kenneth City | 4.9 miles | 18 | |
| Cross Bayou | 5.0 miles | 18 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295071. 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.