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Tancrede, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Lakeland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33811. It stands on Turtle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mulberry quadrangle.

Tancrede within Polk County

Then and now

1949 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 39 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tancrede, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Tancrede, surveyed 1949

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

254 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 254 fires within 5 miles of Tancrede between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,766 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 11 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 maintenance102
Misuse of fire by a minor31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Equipment and vehicle use25
Debris and open burning24
Recreation and ceremony21
Arson/incendiarism11
Natural9
Smoking2
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
21 September 2011Natural20 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLITTLE PINE (53)
18 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSEABOARD (53)
16 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 September 1999Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 August 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 August 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Tancrede: 4 plants, 4 prospects, 2 unknowns, 2 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, Free, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Sand. 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
Bonny Lake MinePhosphorus-Phosphates, Magnesite, Uranium, Iron, Aluminum, Water, Free, Fluorine-FluoritePlant1958
Cristina ReservePhosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Fluorine-FluoriteProspect1935
FridovichPhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Fluorine-FluoriteProspect1936
Little Wheels, Inc. - Wellman-Lord Trust MineSandUnknown
Mulberry Limestone Drying MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Unnamed Diatomite DepositDiatomiteProspect
Debris DepositsPhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, FreeProspect1974
MulberryPhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, FreePast Producer
Mulberry Gulf-AtlanticPhosphorus-PhosphatesPlant
Mulberry Phosphoric Acid PlantPhosphorus-PhosphatesUnknown1968

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tancrede in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 hail. 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
June 2008HailTancrede-A trained spotter reported penny size hail near South Florida Avenue and Christina Boulevard. A 55mph wind gust was also measured by a home weather station near the location.

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
Medulla0.7 miles17
Lakeland Highlands1.2 miles17
Fountain Heights2.7 miles17
Prairie Junction3.0 miles17
Fuller Heights3.6 miles17
Willow Oak3.7 miles12
Mulberry4.3 miles17
East Mulberry4.3 miles17

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 Q122551839The 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 292012. 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.