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Celebration, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Kissimmee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34747. The Survey maps it on the Intercession City quadrangle. 11,178 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 82 feet above sea level.

Celebration within Osceola County

Then and now

1953 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 26 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Celebration, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Celebration, surveyed 1953

Population over time

2 figures

Celebration grew from 7,427 to 11,178 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
20107,427
202011,178+3,751 (+51%)

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

88 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Celebration between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,834 acres in total. 33 started naturally. 12 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
Natural33
Equipment and vehicle use14
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Arson/incendiarism12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Fireworks3
Smoking1
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
30 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.8 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSAND PINE (06)
15 August 1998Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 August 2010Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWIPER (O4)
9 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceABANDON (O4)
3 July 1998Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 July 2010Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceKNOCK DOWN (O4)
28 July 2010Natural5.7 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCHIEF'S CHOICE (O4)
28 July 1999Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Osceola 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
Intercession City4.5 miles13
Reunion5.0 miles13
Campbell6.1 miles13
ChampionsGate6.3 miles13
Kissimmee7.0 miles13
Buenaventura Lakes9.6 miles14
Poinciana Place11.9 miles12
Poinciana13.4 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 CelebrationAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1001696The 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 1699772. 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.