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Weekiwachee Gardens, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Hernando Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34607. The Survey maps it on the Aripeka quadrangle.

Weekiwachee Gardens within Hernando County

Then and now

1954 to 1978

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 Weekiwachee Gardens, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Weekiwachee Gardens, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

157 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 157 fires within 5 miles of Weekiwachee Gardens between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,324 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 26 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
Equipment and vehicle use39
Natural30
Arson/incendiarism26
Misuse of fire by a minor22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Debris and open burning7
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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
7 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2020Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePOND (27)
5 September 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service27-GOLD STAR-0954
4 September 2001Natural80 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 September 1992Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 1998Natural70 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service27/PALM TREE FIRE/1020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hernando County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Weekiwachee Gardens: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Oman Constr. - Aripeka MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

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
Weekiwachee Woodlands1.8 miles15
Weeki Wachee Acres1.8 miles15
Timber Pines2.1 miles15
Berkeley2.2 miles14
Hernando Beach2.4 miles14
Weeki Wachee Gardens2.7 miles16
Weeki Wachee3.3 miles14
Bayport3.6 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 302711. 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.