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Temple Terrace Junction, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Tampa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33637. The Survey maps it on the Thonotosassa quadrangle.

Temple Terrace Junction within Hillsborough County

Then and now

1943 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 52 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Temple Terrace Junction, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Temple Terrace Junction, surveyed 1943

Compare 1943 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

31 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Temple Terrace Junction between 1992 and 2017, burning about 375 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 1 was 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
Natural8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Fireworks2
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
4 September 2009Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service29 RIVER PARK
11 August 1998Natural40 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTROUT CREEK PARK (29)
9 June 2006Fireworks1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service29 DEERWOOD
3 June 1999Natural50 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 June 2000Natural150 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 May 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 May 2017Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceLETTUCE LAKE PARK (29)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hillsborough County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Temple Terrace Junction: 3 unknowns, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand, Peat, Magnesite. 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
Unnamed Peat DepositPeat, MagnesiteOccurrence
Azzarelli Development Corp. - Pruit Road PitSandProducer
Dot Tampa - Pruitt MineSandUnknownSand
Dot Tampa - Williams MineSandUnknownSand
Kash & Karry Food Stores, Inc. - Harney Road MineSandUnknown

Every working 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
Harney1.6 miles16
Temple Terrace2.0 miles18
Clarkwild2.2 miles16
Del Rio2.9 miles18
Kennedy Hill3.3 miles16
Thonotosassa3.4 miles16
Jolly Corner3.8 miles16
Altos Verdes3.9 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.

Wikidata item Q122559437The 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 292104. 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.