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Truck Corner, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Oviedo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32765. It lies near Black Hammock. The Survey maps it on the Oviedo quadrangle.

Truck Corner within Seminole County

Then and now

1955 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 24 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Truck Corner, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Truck Corner, surveyed 1955

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

129 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Truck Corner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,616 acres in total. 49 started naturally. 3 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
Natural49
Railroad operations and maintenance31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
6 September 2007Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHERE WE GO AGAIN (3)
16 September 2018Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLOCKWOOD- (59)
15 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSUNSHOWER (59)
4 August 1993Equipment and vehicle use260 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2010Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceOFF THE ROAD (03)
3 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance65 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service314
21 August 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Seminole 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 Truck Corner: 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand. 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
Excavated Products, Inc - Sr 46SandProducer
Hubbard Construction - Demetree North MineSandUnknown
Sullivan Materials - Tuscawilla UnitsSandProducer

Every working recorded in Seminole 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
Neheb1.1 miles14
Iowa City1.5 miles14
Lake Charm1.6 miles14
Jones Landing1.7 miles14
Oviedo2.1 miles14
Kolokee2.2 miles14
Alafaya Woods3.1 miles14
Whites Landing3.2 miles14

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 Q122553501The 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 294953. 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.