West Tampa, Florida

The same ground, surveyed 74 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1921 1995

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 4 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• El Centro Espanol of West TampaNational Historic Landmark · listed 1974 · 0.7 miles away
• Fort Homer W. Hesterly National Guard Armorylisted 2013 · 0.4 miles away
• George Guida Sr. Houselisted 2006 · 0.6 miles away
• West Tampa Historic Districtlisted 1983 · 0.6 miles away

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.

• 1921 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:31680
• 1947 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1959 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1972 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
• 1981 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1995 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of West Tampa between 1992 and 1996, burning about 22 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Citrus Park
• Palm
• Drew Park
• Egypt Lake
• Carrollwood
• Goldstein

Every fire recorded in Hillsborough County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of West Tampa: 4 plants, 2 unknowns, 2 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Salt, Vermiculite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Hillsborough County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 293124. 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.