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Sebring Shores, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Sebring census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33870. The Survey maps it on the Lake Arbuckle SW quadrangle.

Sebring Shores within Highlands County

Then and now

1952 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 36 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sebring Shores, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Sebring Shores, surveyed 1952

Compare 1952 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

464 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 464 fires within 5 miles of Sebring Shores between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,404 acres in total. 59 started naturally. 97 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
Arson/incendiarism97
Railroad operations and maintenance66
Natural59
Equipment and vehicle use57
Debris and open burning56
Misuse of fire by a minor39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Power generation/transmission/distribution25
Recreation and ceremony20
Smoking13
Fireworks5

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
6 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceVALENCIA STREET (28)
5 September 2002Debris and open burning1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2015Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTRAIL TWO (28)
30 September 2015Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBALBOA BLVD (28)
28 September 2015Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHUMMINGBIRD (28)
28 September 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(HI) TROJAN (1502)
28 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHI-LUCAS-1219
27 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Highlands 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 Sebring Shores: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Alpha General Services - Alpha MineSandUnknownSand

Every working recorded in Highlands County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sebring Shores in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 1 flood, 1 hail. 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 2022HailSebring Shores$500,000Multiple golf ball hail reports near Sebring from NWS employee and trained spotters. Damage includes broken windows and punctured siding on homes along with shattered car windshields.
August 2008FloodSebring Shores$220,000Widespread heavy rains of 5-12 inches associated with Tropical Storm Fay caused $150,000 in flood damage to washed out roads and culverts. Five homes along Arbuckle Creek received flood damage totaling $70,000.

Every storm recorded in Highlands 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
Lakemont1.4 miles15
Sebring3.1 miles14
Avon Park4.7 miles15
Alpine6.9 miles14
De Soto City7.2 miles14
Highland Lakes7.5 miles16
Avon Park Lakes7.7 miles16
Kuhlman9.9 miles14

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 Q122559898The 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 300945. 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.