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South Highpoint, Florida

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Clearwater census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33760. It stands on Long Branch. The Survey maps it on the Safety Harbor quadrangle. 5,018 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 13 feet above sea level.

South Highpoint within Pinellas County

Then and now

1921 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of South Highpoint, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of South Highpoint, surveyed 1921

Compare 1921 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

South Highpoint fell from 5,195 to 5,018 between 2010 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
20105,195
20205,018-177 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of South Highpoint between 1992 and 2016, burning about 296 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 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 maintenance5
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
28 August 1997Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2001Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 July 1993Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 July 1995Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 June 2000Equipment and vehicle use60 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 June 1994Natural85 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 June 2000Smoking2.0 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of South Highpoint: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Largo Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

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
Highpoint0.0 miles20
High Point0.4 miles20
Four Corners0.9 miles20
Bayview3.0 miles20
Feather Sound3.0 miles20
Ulmerton3.4 miles15
Largo4.0 miles15
Cross Bayou4.2 miles18

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 South HighpointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2325710The 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 1853288. 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.