Coleman, Florida
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Wildwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33521. The Survey maps it on the Wildwood quadrangle. 642 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 66 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1893 to 1979The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1893 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresColeman fell from 703 to 642 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 703 | |
| 2020 | 642 | -61 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1893 USGS Panasoffkee quadrangle1:62500
- 1895 USGS Panasoffkee quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Wildwood quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Inverness quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
58 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Coleman between 1992 and 2020, burning about 174 acres in total. 10 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 10 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 August 2020 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 529A (60) |
| 4 July 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | CYPRESS TREE (60) |
| 19 July 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 60/HIGHWAY FIRE/0889 |
| 16 July 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 15 July 1992 | Natural | 10 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 3 June 1999 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 29 June 2020 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | SOUTHBOUND (60) |
| 13 June 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 800 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Coleman: 7 producers, 1 past producer. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Calcium, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bedrock Resources - C470 Mine | Sand | Producer | ||
| Dixie Limeplant | Calcium | Producer | ||
| Aglime Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Dix-Fil | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Dixie Lime & Stone Co.(Coleman #2) | Limestone, General | Producer | Limestone | |
| Dixie Lime and Stone Co. - Central Mine | Limestone, General | Producer | Limestone | |
| M.J. Stavola - Sumterville Mine | Limestone, General | Producer | Limestone | |
| Sumterville Lime Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coleman in 5 storm reports between 1993 and 2012: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Coleman | $20,000 | A short-lived tornado touched down along U.S. Highway 301 near County Road 468 and damaged a mobile home, a few sheds, downed trees and a few power lines before it lifted. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coleman | $5,000 | Emergency management survey reported multiple trees knocked down in the area of Adamsville and Coleman. One tree landed on the roof of a house on County Road 513 and two other homes received minor wind damage. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Coleman | - | Penny size hail was reported near US Highway 301 just south of Coleman. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coleman | - | Law Enforcement reported numerous trees downed by thunderstorm winds. The trees and branches downed power lines. |
| April 1993 | Hail | Coleman | - | Quarter-size hail was reported by a citizen near Coleman, 8 miles north of Bushnell. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adamsville | 2.6 miles | 19 | |
| Monarch | 2.7 miles | 19 | |
| Lake Panasoffkee | 3.3 miles | 19 | |
| Panacoochee Retreats | 3.5 miles | 19 | |
| Sumterville | 3.8 miles | 15 | |
| Orange Home | 4.4 miles | 14 | |
| Wildwood | 4.8 miles | 19 | |
| Middleton | 4.8 miles | 15 |
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 Coleman | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2151556 | The 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 280642. 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.








