Buckhead Ridge, Florida
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Northeast Glades census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34974. The Survey maps it on the Okeechobee NW quadrangle. 1,509 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 13 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1952 to 1988The same ground, surveyed 36 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Population over time
2 figuresBuckhead Ridge grew from 1,450 to 1,509 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,450 | |
| 2020 | 1,509 | +59 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1952 USGS Okeechobee NW quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1981 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
32 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Buckhead Ridge between 1994 and 2017, burning about 31,126 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2011 | Natural | 2,300 acres | Florida Forest Service | INDIAN PRAIRIE (22) |
| 19 July 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | (GL)BUCKHEAD(1151) |
| 7 May 2010 | Natural | 10 acres | Florida Forest Service | (GL) TIM RAINS (297) |
| 7 May 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | 25 acres | Florida Forest Service | GL-LAKE FIRE-729 |
| 5 May 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | (OK) RIVER ROAD (399) |
| 30 May 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 711-GL-PASTURE FIRE |
| 28 May 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 23,250 acres | Florida Forest Service | (GL) FROG LIGHT (0726) |
| 25 May 2006 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | (GL) LITTLE 797 |
Storms near this place
1 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buckhead Ridge in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Buckhead Ridge | 2 hurt, $25,000 | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mayaimi (historical) | 11.8 miles | 13 | |
| Sarasota Colony | 12.1 miles | 13 | |
| Monkey Box | 16.1 miles | 11 | |
| Lakeport | 16.3 miles | 12 | |
| Fort Centre | 18.7 miles | 12 | |
| Liberty Point | 22.5 miles | 12 | |
| Washington Park | 22.6 miles | 11 | |
| Moore Haven | 23.1 miles | 11 |
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 Buckhead Ridge | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2494960 | The 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 279598. 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.
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.






