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Sancassa, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Grove City-Rotonda census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34224. The Survey maps it on the Englewood quadrangle.

Sancassa within Charlotte County

Then and now

1956 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 25 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sancassa, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Sancassa, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

453 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 453 fires within 5 miles of Sancassa between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,872 acres in total. 186 started naturally. 34 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
Natural186
Equipment and vehicle use83
Missing data/not specified/undetermined64
Misuse of fire by a minor41
Arson/incendiarism34
Recreation and ceremony12
Debris and open burning11
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Fireworks6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Smoking3
Other causes1

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
9 September 1996Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2001Natural10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use25 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2016Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBOUNDRY (58)
20 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service08-NOLE FIRE-0441

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charlotte County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sancassa: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Calcium, Sand. 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
Handy Phil - Handy Phil PitSandProducer
Pit Number 007CalciumProducer

Every working recorded in Charlotte County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sancassa in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 dust devil. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2022Dust DevilSancassa-Broadcast media relayed picture of dust devil or landspout in Englewood.

Every storm recorded in Charlotte 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
Grove City1.9 miles12
New Point Comfort2.1 miles12
Shaefer2.3 miles12
Manasota Key2.7 miles12
Punta Gorda Beach3.2 miles12
Rotonda3.6 miles12
El Jobean5.3 miles13
Rotunda-West5.3 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.

Wikidata item Q122550100The 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 300303. 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.