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Shore Acres, Florida

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the St. Petersburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33703. It lies near Venetian Isles. The Survey maps it on the Port Tampa quadrangle.

Shore Acres within Pinellas County

Then and now

1921 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 67 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Shore Acres, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Shore Acres, surveyed 1921

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

27 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Shore Acres between 1992 and 2017, burning about 387 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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
Equipment and vehicle use8
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural2
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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 1996Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 September 1997Natural11 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 August 1997Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service52 NORTH GATE
4 June 2000Equipment and vehicle use60 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 June 2000Smoking2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 May 2000Equipment and vehicle use100 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 May 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pinellas 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 Shore Acres: 1 past producer, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Lease No. 1788Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
National Gypsum Co/ Tampa, Fla.Gypsum-AnhydritePlant

Every working recorded in Pinellas 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
Totstalahoeetska (historical)1.9 miles18
Rio Vista2.9 miles18
Gandy3.5 miles20
Lealman4.0 miles18
Saint Petersburg5.2 miles18
Pinellas Park5.4 miles18
Kenneth City6.2 miles18
Feather Sound6.9 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 291075. 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.