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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.

Terra Ceia within Manatee County

Then and now

1921 to 1988

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Terra Ceia, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Terra Ceia, surveyed 1921

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 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

28 since 1992

Regional 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/incendiarism6
Debris and open burning5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
29 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 September 1993Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 July 2002Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 July 1993Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 June 2014Natural2.2 acresFlorida Forest ServiceGATEWAY BLVD (41)
15 June 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service41-3 PILE FIRE-0481
4 May 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 May 2009Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresFlorida Forest Service41-BISHOP HARBOR FIRE-0313

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Manatee 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Palmetto Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Manatee County

Storms near this place

2 since 2001

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2001Thunderstorm WindTerra Ceia$50,000The Florida Highway Patrol reported thunderstorm winds downed several light poles along the Sunshine Skywarn Bridge (I-275) near Terra Ceia in Manatee county.
October 2015Tornado (EF0)Terra Ceia$12,000Multiple 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.

Every storm recorded in Manatee 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
Palm View1.4 miles17
Rubonia1.5 miles17
Memphis3.2 miles17
Gillette3.2 miles17
Memphis Heights3.3 miles17
Palmetto4.0 miles17
Terra Mana4.1 miles17
Piney Point4.3 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 Terra CeiaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7703066The 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.