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Snows Corner, 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 33527. The Survey maps it on the Plant City West quadrangle.

Snows Corner 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 Snows Corner, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Snows Corner, 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

67 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Snows Corner between 1992 and 2019, burning about 304 acres in total. None 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
Railroad operations and maintenance20
Debris and open burning13
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism5
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
23 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSYDNEY DOVER (29)
16 June 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service910
10 June 1993Debris and open burning4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 May 1997Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 May 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 May 2000Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 May 1994Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 May 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWATER PLANT (29)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hillsborough County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Snows Corner: 3 unknowns, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand, Peat, 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
Unnamed Peat DepositPeat, MagnesiteOccurrence
F.E. Stearns Peat - Stearns PitPeatProducer
Dot Tampa - Pruitt MineSandUnknownSand
Dot Tampa - Sydney Washer MineSandUnknownSand
Red Barn Farm Excavation - Red Barn MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Hillsborough County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Snows Corner in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2014Thunderstorm WindSnows Corner$1,000Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office relayed a report of a downed tree near U.S. Highwary 92 and Bethlehem Road. Time was estimated off of radar.

Every storm 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
Dover0.6 miles13
Turkey Creek2.5 miles13
Sydney2.8 miles13
Seffner3.2 miles16
Antioch3.4 miles16
Beattys Corner3.6 miles13
Jolly Corner3.7 miles16
Mango Hills4.0 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295637. 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.