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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.

Buckhead Ridge within Glades County

Then and now

1952 to 1988

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Buckhead Ridge, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Buckhead Ridge, surveyed 1952

Population over time

2 figures

Buckhead 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,450
20201,509+59 (+4%)

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

32 since 1994

Regional 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 burning9
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1
Smoking1

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
20 September 2011Natural2,300 acresFlorida Forest ServiceINDIAN PRAIRIE (22)
19 July 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(GL)BUCKHEAD(1151)
7 May 2010Natural10 acresFlorida Forest Service(GL) TIM RAINS (297)
7 May 2006Recreation and ceremony25 acresFlorida Forest ServiceGL-LAKE FIRE-729
5 May 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(OK) RIVER ROAD (399)
30 May 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service711-GL-PASTURE FIRE
28 May 2007Arson/incendiarism23,250 acresFlorida Forest Service(GL) FROG LIGHT (0726)
25 May 2006Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(GL) LITTLE 797

Every fire recorded in Glades County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1997Tornado (F0)Buckhead Ridge2 hurt, $25,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Glades 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
Mayaimi (historical)11.8 miles13
Sarasota Colony12.1 miles13
Monkey Box16.1 miles11
Lakeport16.3 miles12
Fort Centre18.7 miles12
Liberty Point22.5 miles12
Washington Park22.6 miles11
Moore Haven23.1 miles11

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 RidgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2494960The 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.