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South Masaryktown, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Central Pasco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34610. The Survey maps it on the Masaryktown quadrangle.

South Masaryktown within Pasco County

Then and now

1954 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 24 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 Masaryktown, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of South Masaryktown, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

162 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 162 fires within 5 miles of South Masaryktown between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,631 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 22 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 maintenance45
Arson/incendiarism22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Misuse of fire by a minor21
Equipment and vehicle use18
Debris and open burning17
Natural9
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1

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 1992Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1996Smoking1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBOWMAN RD (51)
13 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresFlorida Forest Service51/PAINTER FIRE/0623
7 August 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service27/MARTHA PILE FIRE/0866
3 August 2013Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBRAEMERE (27)
30 July 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 July 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder 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
Shady Hills4.6 miles15
Greenfield5.7 miles14
Darby7.1 miles14
Fivay Junction7.8 miles14
Chukuchatta (historical)8.7 miles15
Pasco9.7 miles14
Saint Joseph9.9 miles15

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.

Wikidata item Q122560061The 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 300905. 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.