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Tooke Lake Junction, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Brooksville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34601. The Survey maps it on the Brooksville quadrangle.

Tooke Lake Junction within Hernando County

Then and now

1954 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 44 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tooke Lake Junction, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Tooke Lake Junction, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

173 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of Tooke Lake Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,858 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 13 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 maintenance47
Debris and open burning30
Equipment and vehicle use29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Arson/incendiarism13
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking3
Other causes2

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
9 September 1992Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 July 2017Natural100 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCAMPMINE RD(27)
30 July 1999Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 July 1996Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 July 2007Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Service27/FOXFIRE/0807

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hernando County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Tooke Lake Junction: 1 plant, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Calcium, Clay, Limestone, General. 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
Brooksville Lime KilnCalciumPlant
Dot Dade City - Mason-Smith MineLimestone, GeneralUnknownLimestone
Wayne Thomas PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hernando 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
South Brooksville0.8 miles16
Brooksville1.6 miles16
Conrock2.9 miles14
North Brooksville3.0 miles16
Powell3.5 miles13
Wiscon4.0 miles16
Garden Grove4.4 miles13
Camps4.7 miles16

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 Q122592841The 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 294948. 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.