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Shilow, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Plant City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33563. The Survey maps it on the Plant City West quadrangle.

Shilow within Hillsborough County

Then and now

1944 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 34 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Shilow, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Shilow, surveyed 1944

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Shilow between 1992 and 2020, burning about 606 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 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 maintenance13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony2

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
13 August 2006Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service53 FAIRMONT
12 August 2006Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service29 VARN PROPERTY
7 June 2000Natural30 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 June 2015Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCORONET (29)
21 June 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 June 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service910
14 June 2011Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceALSOBROOK (29)
31 May 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest Service29 HEARD 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hillsborough County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Shilow: 5 unknowns, 1 prospect, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, Free, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
East Pierce DepositPhosphorus-Phosphates, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, Free, Aluminum, Fluorine-FluoriteProspect1920
Plant City CfPhosphorus-PhosphatesPlant
Alvin Futch Co. - Grimmer PitSandProducer
Bishop & Buttrey, Inc. - Wilder Pit #23 MineSandUnknown
Dot Tampa - Cason MineSandUnknownSand
Lewis Pogue - Pogue MineSandUnknown
Red Barn Farm Excavation - Red Barn MineSandUnknown
Willis Ekhoff - Ekhoff MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Hillsborough 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
Plant City1.7 miles16
Midway2.4 miles16
Knights2.6 miles16
Mount Enon2.9 miles16
Youmans3.3 miles16
Hopewell Gardens4.2 miles13
Coronet4.4 miles12
Trapnell5.2 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 291046. 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.