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Center Hill, Florida

10 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 33514. The Survey maps it on the Center Hill quadrangle. 846 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 98 feet above sea level.

Center Hill 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 Center Hill, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Center Hill, surveyed 1955

Population over time

3 figures

Center Hill fell from 910 to 846 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
2000910
2010988+78 (+9%)
2020846-142 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

97 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Center Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 988 acres in total. 6 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 burning26
Equipment and vehicle use23
Railroad operations and maintenance19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2

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
13 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceYOUTH CAMP RD (35)
20 August 1999Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 August 1993Natural180 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 July 2006Debris and open burning4.0 acresFlorida Forest Service35/AUSTIN FIRE/0783
24 June 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 June 1993Equipment and vehicle use60 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 June 1998Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 June 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter 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 Center Hill: 7 producers, 1 plant, 1 past producer. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Peat, Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Central Florida Excavating - Brown Fish PondSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Florida Crushed Stone - Center Hill QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
L.J.Stephens Transp., Centerhill QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
C & C Peat - Honeycut PitPeatProducerPeat
Center Hill QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Center Hill QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hillary Peat - Heneycut Lake PitPeatProducerPeat
Mabel PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Reliable Peat - Youth Camp MinePeatProducerPeat

Every working recorded in Sumter County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Center Hill in 2 storm reports in 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
January 2019Thunderstorm WindCenter Hill$40,000Wind gusts destroyed a metal shed, flipped over a pontoon boat sitting on a trailer, and ripped part of a barn free, landing on top of a truck. Several trees and power lines were also knocked down, blocking roads.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindCenter Hill$5,000Numerous trees and power lines were reported down on County Road 702 near the Sumter/Lake County line.

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
Pilaklakha (historical)1.2 miles10
Bevilles Corner3.3 miles15
Webster4.3 miles13
Oak Grove4.4 miles13
Mabel4.9 miles10
Carver5.8 miles15
Lincoln Park6.1 miles15
Bushnell6.5 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 Center HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2157798The 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 280236. 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.

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.