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Astatula, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Tavares census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34705. The Survey maps it on the Astatula quadrangle. 1,889 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 95 feet above sea level.

Astatula within Lake County

Then and now

1955 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 24 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Astatula, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Astatula, surveyed 1955

Population over time

3 figures

Astatula grew from 1,298 to 1,889 between 2000 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
20001,298
20101,810+512 (+39%)
20201,889+79 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

123 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Astatula between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,965 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 3 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
Natural26
Debris and open burning23
Equipment and vehicle use16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1
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
3 September 2001Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service35/LAST RANCH FIRE/0865
5 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service35/MADISON/0857
20 August 2000Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 August 2011Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceREVELS (35)
13 August 2012Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSHIRLEY SHORES(35)
6 July 1998Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Astatula: 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand. 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
Astatula Sand MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Florida Rock Industries, Inc - Astatula MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Astatula in 1 storm report in 1999: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 1999HailAstatula-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
Howey-in-the-Hills2.2 miles11
Howey Height3.0 miles13
Orange Blossom3.2 miles11
Clay Island3.7 miles13
Ellsworth Junction3.7 miles12
Lake Jem4.3 miles13
Yalaha4.5 miles11
Lane Park4.5 miles12

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 AstatulaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q747082The 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 293916. 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.