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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.

Shady Hills within Pasco County

Then and now

1954 to 1999

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Shady Hills, surveyed 1999
Topographic sheet of Shady Hills, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Population over time

3 figures

Shady 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.

YearPeople Change
20007,798
201011,523+3,725 (+48%)
202011,690+167 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

215 since 1992

Regional 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 maintenance66
Equipment and vehicle use37
Arson/incendiarism30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Natural17
Debris and open burning15
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking3

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
7 September 1996Smoking1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 September 1995Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 September 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2006Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest Service51/CIRCLE FIRE-0969
13 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresFlorida Forest Service51/PAINTER FIRE/0623
8 August 2000Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 August 1997Equipment and vehicle use14 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 August 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Loyce3.6 miles13
Greenfield4.4 miles14
South Masaryktown4.6 miles13
Fivay Junction6.1 miles14
Aripeka6.6 miles14
Hudson8.6 miles15
Bayonet Point9.4 miles15
Darby10.4 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.

Wikipedia article on Shady HillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2428932The 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.