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Clarcona, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Apopka census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32818. The Survey maps it on the Orlando West quadrangle. 3,283 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 98 feet above sea level.

Clarcona within Orange County

Then and now

1955 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 40 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Clarcona, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Clarcona, surveyed 1955

Compare 1955 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Clarcona grew from 2,990 to 3,283 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
20102,990
20203,283+293 (+10%)

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

56 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Clarcona between 1992 and 2019, burning about 413 acres in total. None 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
Arson/incendiarism12
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony1
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
27 September 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceJUNE BUG (48)
23 July 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCLARKE (48)
12 July 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 June 2008Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCOLD CAT FISH (04)
26 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMEADOWS (48)
24 June 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceGUMBALL (04)
2 June 2000Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 May 1996Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Clarcona: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Mabel QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarcona in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2020: 3 hail. 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
May 2020HailClarcona-The public reported hail up to quarter size hail near the intersection of McCormick Road and Apopka-Vineland Road near South Apopka.
August 2020HailClarcona-The public reported quarter sized hail near the intersection of Clarcona Ocoee Road and North Apopka Vineland Road in Clarcona.
March 2009HailClarcona-Nickel sized hail was observed.

Every storm recorded in Orange 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
Lake Apopka2.5 miles14
Paradise Heights2.5 miles14
Piedmont2.8 miles15
Lockhart3.0 miles15
Fullers3.1 miles14
South Apopka3.4 miles13
Rosemont3.5 miles15
Ocoee3.8 miles14

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 ClarconaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5126098The 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 280488. 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.