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Black Diamond, Florida

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Crystal River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34461. The Survey maps it on the Holder quadrangle. 1,255 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 56 feet above sea level.

Black Diamond within Citrus County

Then and now

1895 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Black Diamond, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Black Diamond, surveyed 1895

Population over time

3 figures

Black Diamond grew from 694 to 1,255 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
2000694
20101,101+407 (+59%)
20201,255+154 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 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

330 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 330 fires within 5 miles of Black Diamond between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,138 acres in total. 38 started naturally. 31 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
Equipment and vehicle use75
Debris and open burning58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined51
Railroad operations and maintenance46
Natural38
Arson/incendiarism31
Misuse of fire by a minor23
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
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 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceALGIERES (09)
17 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSANCTION RD (09)
16 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined28 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBROOKSHIRE (09)
1 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceFOXDALE (09)
4 August 2014Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceBRAVO (09)
30 August 2019Recreation and ceremony2.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCINNAMON RIDGE (09)
29 August 2007Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Service09/ELLEN FIRE/1018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Citrus County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Black Diamond: 6 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, 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
Citrus Co. Board of Co. Comm. - Landfill Expansion MineSandUnknown
Carroll Contracting - Carroll Lecanto PitLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Carrolls Lecanto PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Continental Mining - Continental's MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Howard Phosphates - Howard MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Lecanto MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lecanto Rock MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Manko - Section 5 MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Unnamed Aggregate QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence

Every working recorded in Citrus 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
Beverly Hills1.5 miles23
Pine Ridge1.9 miles23
Citrus Hills3.3 miles23
Lecanto4.2 miles25
Holder5.1 miles23
Crystal River5.7 miles14
Citrus Springs5.9 miles23
Hernando6.0 miles25

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 Black DiamondAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q570406The 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 1853236. 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.