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Welcome, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Wimauma-Riverview census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33547. It stands on Chito Branch. The Survey maps it on the Keysville quadrangle.

Welcome within Hillsborough County

Then and now

1955 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 33 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Welcome, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Welcome, surveyed 1955

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

128 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Welcome between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,751 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 15 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Natural22
Railroad operations and maintenance20
Debris and open burning17
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use12
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
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
22 September 2011Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBROWNING (29)
30 August 1997Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 August 1994Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFlorida Forest Service29 FIFTY CENT FIRE
20 August 2005Natural10 acresFlorida Forest Service200
12 August 1993Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 July 1993Natural11 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 July 1998Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hillsborough County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Welcome: 2 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Water, Free, Fluorine-Fluorite, Magnesite, Uranium, Iron, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium. 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
Hillsborough Co.- Farmland/BrewsterPhosphorus-Phosphates, Magnesite, Uranium, Iron, Aluminum, Fluorine-FluoriteProspect1950
Kingsford MinePhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, UraniumPast Producer1920, 1948
Lithia-BoyettePhosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Water, Free, Fluorine-FluoriteProspect
Hillsborough MinesPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer
Imc Agrico - New WalesPhosphorus-PhosphatesProducerCollophane
New Wales Phosphoric Acid PlantPhosphorus-PhosphatesUnknown

Every working recorded in Hillsborough 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
Keysville2.3 miles12
Pinecrest2.4 miles12
Edison2.8 miles12
Aldermans Ford2.9 miles12
Lillibridge3.1 miles12
Lithia3.9 miles12
Fish Hawk5.7 miles12
Pleasant Grove5.9 miles13

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.

Wikipedia article on WelcomeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21020995The 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 293009. 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.