Victor, Florida

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Tarpon Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34689. It lies near Sunset Hills. The Survey maps it on the Tarpon Springs quadrangle.

Victor within Pinellas County

Then and now

1943 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 52 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Victor, surveyed 1995

Topographic sheet of Victor, surveyed 1943

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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.

1943 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1943 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:31680
1955 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1978 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:100000
1995 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Victor between 1992 and 2020, burning about 539 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 23 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	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Natural	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
1 September 1999	Natural	20 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
23 August 1997	Natural	28 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
7 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	RUSHMORE (51)
4 July 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
22 July 2008	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	51/DOVE/0766
15 July 2007	Natural	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	51/SALT FLAT FIRE/0865
9 June 2006	Arson/incendiarism	3.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	52 NORTH ANCLOTE
8 June 2014	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	MARINER POINT (52)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pinellas 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Tarpon Springs	1.8 miles	18
Cove Springs	3.4 miles	17
Innisbrook	4.1 miles	17
Wall Springs	4.7 miles	17
Lake Shore Estates	5.0 miles	16
Crystal Beach	5.4 miles	17
East Lake	5.8 miles	16
Acklocknayke (historical)	6.0 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295688. 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.