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Bushnell, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Bushnell-Center Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33513. The Survey maps it on the Bushnell quadrangle. 3,047 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 79 feet above sea level.

Bushnell within Sumter 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 Bushnell, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Bushnell, surveyed 1955

On record in Bushnell

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Population over time

3 figures

Bushnell grew from 2,050 to 3,047 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
20002,050
20102,418+368 (+18%)
20203,047+629 (+26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

69 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Bushnell between 1992 and 2020, burning about 439 acres in total. 8 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
Railroad operations and maintenance23
Debris and open burning17
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
2 September 2014Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceOAK (60)
15 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service747(60)
23 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresFlorida Forest Service609A (60)
28 June 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service60/OAK TREE FIRE/0779
26 June 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service60/BATTLEFIELD FIRE/0768
15 June 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 May 2017Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePOTTING SOIL (60)
29 May 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service60/722 FIRE-0657

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Storms near this place

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bushnell in 27 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 17 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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
April 2023Thunderstorm WindBushnell$25,000EM reports downed trees and power lines northwest of Bushnell.
March 2011Thunderstorm WindBushnell$20,000There were numerous reports of trees and power lines down in the Bushnell area. Trees were blocking the roads on Highway 301 and County Road 475 where each intersected County Road 532W. The downed trees led to a multiple vehicle accident on County Road 475.
June 2000HailBushnell$20,000Skywarn Spotters reported that wind blown dime to nickel sized hail damaged a few vehicles in Bushnell.
March 2011Thunderstorm WindBushnell$15,000There were numerous reports of trees and power lines down in the Bushnell area. A tree blocked the road near the intersection of County Road 476 and County Road 609A.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindBushnell$10,000Sumter County Emergency Management reported numerous downed trees on Jumper Drive in Bushnell. One house sustained minor roof damage from a tree. The Osprey Point Nursing Center also sustained minor damage to the facade of the building.
March 2001Thunderstorm WindBushnell$10,000The Sumter county emergency management reported thunderstorm winds damaged a few sheds, downed a few trees and several large branches along U.S. Highway 301 in extreme southern Sumter county.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindBushnell$10,000Sumter County Emergency Management reported that thunderstorm winds downed several power lines and large branches along U.S. Highway 301 between Bushnell and Sumterville.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindBushnell$10,000A Skywarn Spotter reported that a 50 mph thunderstorm wind gust caused minor to moderate damage to one quarter of a metal type quonset barn along County Road 575 north of County Road 476.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBushnell$5,000There were several reports of trees, power lines, and numerous medium to large tree limbs downed around the city of Bushnell.
June 2007LightningBushnell$5,000Lightning ignited a fire in the eaves of a church a few mile east of Bushnell.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindBushnell$5,000Thunderstorm winds down trees and took the roof off of one mobile home in Bushnell.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindBushnell$5,000Skywarn Spotters reported that thunderstorm winds removed the roof of a greenhouse and downed a few large trees and several large branches along a three quarter mile long and 200 yard path in Bushnell.
March 1993Thunderstorm WindBushnell$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds uprooted a tree which crashed into a house.
September 1998Tornado (F0)Bushnell$5,000no account filed
March 1996Tornado (F0)Bushnell$4,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindBushnell$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed a few large trees, several large limbs and a couple power lines along U.S. Highway 301 in Bushnell.
January 1995Thunderstorm WindBushnell$2,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
June 1995Tornado (F0)Bushnell$2,000Brief tornado touchdowns did minor damage.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindBushnell$1,000A local TV station shared pictures of a few large trees down in Bushnell. A trampoline was also tossed into a tree.
March 1996Thunderstorm WindBushnell$1,000no account filed
March 2018HailBushnell-Sumter County Sheriff's Office reported nickel size hail in Wahoo.
February 2004Heavy RainBushnell-Bushnell recorded 6.51 inches of rain during the event.
March 2001HailBushnell-Quarter sized hail was reported by Sumter county emergency management along County Road 476B in extreme southwest Sumter county.
July 1999HailBushnell-Dime sized hail was reported by Sumter County Emergency Management on the 1000 block of County Road 48.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindBushnell-no account filed
March 2003Thunderstorm WindBushnell-no account filed
March 1996HailBushnell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sumter 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
Carver0.8 miles15
Lincoln Park0.8 miles15
Bevilles Corner3.3 miles15
Saint Catherine4.0 miles14
Wahoo4.7 miles13
Webster4.9 miles13
Oak Grove5.8 miles13
Sumterville6.1 miles15

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 BushnellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2153058The 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 279729. 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.