Sticks of Fire: a Tampa blog

Over at the Florida Center for Instructional Technology, College of Education, University of South Florida, they have collected a bunch of historical maps of the state of Florida, and planted them online.

This is a map of Hillsborough County in 1845:

Yeah, it stretched from today’s Marion County down to Lake Okechobee. If you want to line it up with a current map view, go there, scroll down and download the Google Earth file. If you don’t have it, you can also download Google Earth for free.

Our friend Trevor knows fishing.  Especially fishing in and around Tampa Bay.  In fact, he’s the guy behind the great Tampa Bay fishing site called Tampa Bay Fish.  But even better than a website about fishing would be a map of where to catch some dinner.

So TrevorOK created a googlemap of Fishing Hot Spots in and around Tampa Bay:

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We especially love the use of images of fishies to mark the spots. 

Go get ‘em.

Community Collection Centers may be used to dispose of collectible items by those residential customers who receive an exemption from curb-side pick up, and non-collectible items by non-residential customers. This facility accepts collectible waste, non-collectible waste, scrap metal, tires, used motor oil,lead acid batteries and recyclable curbside materials.

Household chemicals and electronics are accepted from 8AM to 2PM at the Northwest facility (9805 Sheldon Rd.) on the 1st Saturday of the month, the South County facility (Powell Rd., east off US 41, ¼ north of Big Bend Rd.) on the 2nd Saturday of the month, and the East County facility (Thonotosassa, CR 579, ¼ mile north of I-4, Exit 10) on the 3rd Saturday of the month. Materials accepted include paint, solvents, pool chemicals, hobby and craft supplies, lawn and garden chemicals, computers, stereos, televisions, etc. Collections are for residents only - NO chemicals or electronics will be accepted from commercial interests.

Googlemapper johnncalli shows us where to find those Hillsborough County Garbage Dumps:

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Googlemap user johnray2 created a map of Plant City Places of Interest.

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Now you can easily find your way to Dinosaur World, the 1914 Community Center, the Whistle Stop Cafe, the Plant City Skate Park, and Knott’s Hardware Store.