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Saint Joseph, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Central Pasco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33525. The Survey maps it on the Spring Lake quadrangle.

Saint Joseph within Pasco County

Then and now

1954 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 24 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Saint Joseph, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Saint Joseph, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

69 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Saint Joseph between 1992 and 2018, burning about 712 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 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 maintenance20
Debris and open burning16
Equipment and vehicle use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
5 September 2007Smoking1.5 acresFlorida Forest Service51/LYNAN FIRE/1116
1 September 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 July 2005Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service51/RAVINE FIRE/0544
15 July 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 July 1995Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 July 1994Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 June 2000Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 June 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pasco County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Saint Joseph: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Dot Dade City - Clay MineClayUnknown

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
Chipco Township (historical)1.7 miles15
Chukuchatta (historical)1.8 miles15
Jessamine2.8 miles15
San Antonio2.8 miles14
Saint Leo3.1 miles14
Blanton3.3 miles12
Darby3.9 miles14
Tommytown4.4 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 Saint JosephAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16900572The 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 290243. 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.