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Westchase, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Keystone-Citrus Park census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33626. The Survey maps it on the Citrus Park quadrangle. 25,952 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Westchase within Hillsborough County

Then and now

1947 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 51 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Westchase, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Westchase, surveyed 1947

Compare 1947 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Westchase grew from 21,747 to 25,952 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201021,747
202025,952+4,205 (+19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

158 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 158 fires within 5 miles of Westchase between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,013 acres in total. 67 started naturally. 14 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
Natural67
Railroad operations and maintenance18
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Equipment and vehicle use15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Arson/incendiarism14
Recreation and ceremony4
Debris and open burning4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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
6 September 1993Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 1997Natural14 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 September 1997Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 1993Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 1992Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2012Natural27 acresFlorida Forest ServiceDIAGONAL POWER LINE (52)
3 August 1993Natural6.0 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

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Westchase: 3 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand. 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

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
Spivey2.1 miles17
Tarpon2.5 miles17
Town 'n' Country3.5 miles17
Rocky Creek3.8 miles17
Cosme4.2 miles17
Foxs Corner4.3 miles17
Sweetwater Creek4.7 miles20
Bay Crest Park4.8 miles20

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 WestchaseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2464007The 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 1853303. 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.