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Allentown, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Allentown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32570. The Survey maps it on the Allentown quadrangle. 1,023 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 207 feet above sea level.

Allentown within Santa Rosa County

Then and now

1943 to 1994

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 Allentown, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Allentown, surveyed 1943

Compare 1943 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Allentown grew from 894 to 1,023 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
2010894
20201,023+129 (+14%)

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

117 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Allentown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 803 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 7 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
Railroad operations and maintenance33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Equipment and vehicle use19
Debris and open burning17
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Other causes1

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 2015Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceNORTH HWY. 89 (57)
16 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance5.2 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 August 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceUP THE CREEK (57)
5 July 2001Equipment and vehicle use10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 July 1996Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 July 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Rosa 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 Allentown: 2 unknowns, 2 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Dot Pensacola - Clear Creek MineSandUnknown
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Santa Rosa Co. Road Dept. - Red Bug MineClayUnknown
Unnamed Clay DepositClayProspect
Unnamed Clay DepositsClayProspect
Unnamed Clay ProspectClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Santa Rosa County

Storms near this place

17 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Allentown in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 lightning, 2 hail, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2014LightningAllentown1 killedA lightning strike killed a 71 year old man while he was out in a field picking blueberries.
July 2002LightningAllentown1 hurtA male was outside when he was hit by lightning. No information about how or exactly where he was at when the strike occurred was known. He was taken to a local hospital, examined and later released.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindAllentown$57,000High winds knocked over several trees. A silo was badly damaged with debris crossing HWY 89 near Allentown. A porch to a house also sustained wind damage.
December 2008Thunderstorm WindAllentown$33,000Thunderstorms produced gusty winds that damaged metal buildings in Allentown.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindAllentown$18,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindAllentown$12,000no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindAllentown$7,000High winds from thunderstorms blew a roof off a shed and also blew down several trees near Allentown.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindAllentown$5,000Winds estimated at 60 mph downed trees across a road.
April 1996Thunderstorm WindAllentown$3,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindAllentown-Significant straight line wind damage on State Hwy 87 where multiple wooden power poles were snapped. Metal roofing from a small barn was also lifted and blown between 100-200 yards. Debris and damage all laying in the same direction.
May 2024Tornado (EFU)Allentown-A new EF-U tornado has been discovered via high resolution Planet satellite imagery from the May 10th tornado event. A radar tornado debris signature was present which necessitated the review of available satellite imagery to confirm the existence of this tornado. The tornado began east of Paul Barnes Road and solely remained in dense forest, tracking southeast of three quarters of a mile. The tornado lifted midway between Paul Barnes Road and Three Notch Trail. Once higher resolution imagery becomes available, the tornado intensity may be able to be assessed.||This survey was able to be completed with the assistance of NASA SPoRT, NASAMSFC, NASA CSDA and the NASA Disasters Program providing high resolution Planet satellite imagery. Without the availability of this remote sensing imagery, the true path length, width, and track of this tornado would not have been able to be determined.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindAllentown-High winds downed trees and powerlines on Penton Road.
January 2024Flash FloodAllentown-Heavy rain caused water over the roadway near the 3900 block of CR 182.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindAllentown-High winds downed multiple trees and damaged greenhouses.
March 2009HailAllentown-no account filed
March 2009HailAllentown-no account filed
June 2008LightningAllentown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Santa Rosa 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
Point Baker5.0 miles15
Spring Hill5.3 miles13
Roeville6.5 miles18
Indian Ford7.1 miles18
Whitfield8.2 miles14
Milton9.0 miles15
Cobbtown9.3 miles14
Wallace9.4 miles14

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 AllentownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5669280The 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 294649. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.