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Waterbury, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Myakka City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34251. The Survey maps it on the Verna quadrangle.

Waterbury within Manatee County

Then and now

1944 to 1988

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 Waterbury, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Waterbury, surveyed 1944

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

142 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Waterbury between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,613 acres in total. 40 started naturally. 4 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
Natural40
Railroad operations and maintenance27
Debris and open burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2

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 2014Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMIDWAY RD. (58)
4 September 2012Natural4.4 acresFlorida Forest Service60TH AVE. EAST (41)
28 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSTATE ROAD 64E (41)
25 September 1993Natural40 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2007Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service41-SMR FIRE-0478
19 September 2005Debris and open burning5.0 acresFlorida Forest Service41-FIRE-0449
3 August 1993Natural15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 August 1996Natural25 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Bethany2.9 miles12
Manhattan4.4 miles12
Verna4.4 miles12
Oak Knoll4.8 miles12
Lorraine5.0 miles13
Rye5.9 miles12
Parmalee6.8 miles11
Foxleigh7.8 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 294967. 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.