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Citrus Hills, Florida

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Inverness census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34442. The Survey maps it on the Holder quadrangle. 9,302 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 115 feet above sea level.

Citrus Hills within Citrus County

Then and now

1895 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Citrus Hills, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Citrus Hills, surveyed 1895

Population over time

3 figures

Citrus Hills grew from 4,029 to 9,302 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
20004,029
20107,470+3,441 (+85%)
20209,302+1,832 (+25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 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

179 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 179 fires within 5 miles of Citrus Hills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,682 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 20 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 maintenance31
Equipment and vehicle use27
Natural27
Debris and open burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Arson/incendiarism20
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2
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
7 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2003Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Service145
20 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minor1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSANCTION RD (09)
15 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service09/SAND FIRE 0628
25 August 2000Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service09/ST JAMES FIRE/0916
12 August 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service09/MIKES TRAIL 13 FIRE/0971

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Citrus County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Citrus Hills: 7 producers, 2 past producers, 2 plants, 1 occurrence. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Sand. 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
Citrus Co. Board of Co. Comm. - Landfill Expansion MineSandUnknown
J and L Croft Co. - Croft PitSandProducer
Acton Mine & MillPhosphorus-PhosphatesPlant
Kellogg Mine & MillPhosphorus-PhosphatesPlant
Manko Co Section 5 MinePhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer
Carroll Contracting - Carroll Lecanto PitLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Carrolls Lecanto PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Continental Mining - Continental's MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Howard Phosphates - Howard MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Lecanto MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Citrus 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
Beverly Hills2.4 miles23
Hernando3.2 miles25
Black Diamond3.3 miles23
Lecanto3.9 miles25
Arlington4.1 miles24
Pine Ridge4.1 miles23
Holder5.5 miles23
Big Hammock (historical)6.1 miles25

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 Citrus HillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1093735The 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 1853242. 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.