Terra Ceia, Florida
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Palmetto census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34250. It stands on Terra Ceia Island. The Survey maps it on the Palmetto quadrangle. It stands 3 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1921 to 1988The same ground, surveyed 67 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in Terra Ceia
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1921 USGS Fort De Soto quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1944 USGS Ellenton quadrangle1:24000
- 1944 USGS Ellenton quadrangle1:31680
- 1956 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Palmetto quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1972 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
28 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Terra Ceia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 65 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 28 September 1993 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 6 July 2002 | Natural | 6.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 11 July 1993 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 16 June 2014 | Natural | 2.2 acres | Florida Forest Service | GATEWAY BLVD (41) |
| 15 June 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 41-3 PILE FIRE-0481 |
| 4 May 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 2 May 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 41-BISHOP HARBOR FIRE-0313 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Terra Ceia: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palmetto Cement Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Terra Ceia in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2015: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Terra Ceia | $50,000 | The Florida Highway Patrol reported thunderstorm winds downed several light poles along the Sunshine Skywarn Bridge (I-275) near Terra Ceia in Manatee county. |
| October 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Terra Ceia | $12,000 | Multiple reports were received of a waterspout that formed over the Tampa Bay and came onshore as a brief tornado near the southern end of the Skyway Bridge. The tornado crossed Interstate 275 and caused damage to a trailer. Track location was estimated based off of amateur video. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palm View | 1.4 miles | 17 | |
| Rubonia | 1.5 miles | 17 | |
| Memphis | 3.2 miles | 17 | |
| Gillette | 3.2 miles | 17 | |
| Memphis Heights | 3.3 miles | 17 | |
| Palmetto | 4.0 miles | 17 | |
| Terra Mana | 4.1 miles | 17 | |
| Piney Point | 4.3 miles | 18 |
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 Terra Ceia | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7703066 | The 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 292127. 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.










