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Tommytown, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Dade City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33523. The Survey maps it on the Lacoochee quadrangle.

Tommytown within Pasco County

Then and now

1955 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 23 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tommytown, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Tommytown, surveyed 1955

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

69 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Tommytown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 758 acres in total. 12 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
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Debris and open burning13
Natural12
Equipment and vehicle use11
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Smoking3
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
5 September 2007Smoking1.5 acresFlorida Forest Service51/LYNAN FIRE/1116
18 August 1999Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 August 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service51/LITTLE EVERGLADES/0902
4 July 1998Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 July 1994Natural8.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 July 2005Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service51/RAVINE FIRE/0544
15 July 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 July 1995Natural2.0 acresFlorida 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
Dade City0.9 miles14
Clinton Heights3.3 miles14
Blanton3.3 miles12
Lake Pasadena Heights3.5 miles14
Old Henley Place3.6 miles12
South Clinton Heights3.9 miles14
Saint Leo4.0 miles14
Chipco Township (historical)4.0 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 Q122550123The 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 292343. 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.