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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.

Coleman within Sumter County

Then and now

1893 to 1979

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Coleman, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Coleman, surveyed 1893

Compare 1893 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Coleman 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.

YearPeople Change
2010703
2020642-61 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

58 since 1992

Regional 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 use12
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Natural10
Debris and open burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
15 August 2020Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service529A (60)
4 July 2019Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceCYPRESS TREE (60)
19 July 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service60/HIGHWAY FIRE/0889
16 July 1997Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 July 1992Natural10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 June 1999Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 June 2020Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSOUTHBOUND (60)
13 June 2008Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service800

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bedrock Resources - C470 MineSandProducer
Dixie LimeplantCalciumProducer
Aglime PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Dix-FilStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Dixie Lime & Stone Co.(Coleman #2)Limestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Dixie Lime and Stone Co. - Central MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
M.J. Stavola - Sumterville MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Sumterville Lime QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Sumter County

Storms near this place

5 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 1998Tornado (F0)Coleman$20,000A 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 2012Thunderstorm WindColeman$5,000Emergency 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 2008HailColeman-Penny size hail was reported near US Highway 301 just south of Coleman.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindColeman-Law Enforcement reported numerous trees downed by thunderstorm winds. The trees and branches downed power lines.
April 1993HailColeman-Quarter-size hail was reported by a citizen near Coleman, 8 miles north of Bushnell.

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
Adamsville2.6 miles19
Monarch2.7 miles19
Lake Panasoffkee3.3 miles19
Panacoochee Retreats3.5 miles19
Sumterville3.8 miles15
Orange Home4.4 miles14
Wildwood4.8 miles19
Middleton4.8 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 ColemanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2151556The 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.