Shady Hills, Florida
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Port Richey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34610. The Survey maps it on the Port Richey NE quadrangle. 11,690 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 52 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1954 to 1999The same ground, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1954 against another survey:
Population over time
3 figuresShady Hills grew from 7,798 to 11,690 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 7,798 | |
| 2010 | 11,523 | +3,725 (+48%) |
| 2020 | 11,690 | +167 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 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.
- 1954 USGS Port Richey NE quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Port Richey Ne quadrangle1:24000
- 1955 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:100000
- 1999 USGS Port Richey NE quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
215 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 215 fires within 5 miles of Shady Hills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,090 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 30 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 maintenance | 66 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 37 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 30 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 20 |
| Natural | 17 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1996 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 23 September 1995 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 16 September 2006 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 51/CIRCLE FIRE-0969 |
| 13 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.2 acres | Florida Forest Service | 51/PAINTER FIRE/0623 |
| 8 August 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 31 August 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 14 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 29 August 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loyce | 3.6 miles | 13 | |
| Greenfield | 4.4 miles | 14 | |
| South Masaryktown | 4.6 miles | 13 | |
| Fivay Junction | 6.1 miles | 14 | |
| Aripeka | 6.6 miles | 14 | |
| Hudson | 8.6 miles | 15 | |
| Bayonet Point | 9.4 miles | 15 | |
| Darby | 10.4 miles | 14 |
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 Shady Hills | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2428932 | The 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 1853286. 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.








