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Combee Settlement, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Lakeland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33801. The Survey maps it on the Lakeland quadrangle. 5,911 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 131 feet above sea level.

Combee Settlement within Polk County

Then and now

1944 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 50 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Combee Settlement, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Combee Settlement, surveyed 1944

Compare 1944 against another survey:

Population over time

3 figures

Combee Settlement grew from 5,436 to 5,911 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
20005,436
20105,577+141 (+3%)
20205,911+334 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

225 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 225 fires within 5 miles of Combee Settlement between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,022 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 18 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 maintenance66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Misuse of fire by a minor30
Equipment and vehicle use26
Natural24
Debris and open burning21
Arson/incendiarism18
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
30 September 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2011Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceRANCH AND FARM (53)
20 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceNURSERY (53)
5 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service53 KOOTER LANE
30 August 2004Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePERSIMMON PATCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Combee Settlement: 3 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Fluorine-Fluorite, Aluminum, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Aluminum, Magnesite, Iron, Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Water, Free. 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
Anchor Investment - Fair-Anchor MineSandUnknownSand
Macasphalt - AuburndaleClayProducerClay
Saddle Creek - EbersbachPhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, UraniumPast Producer1968
Saddle Creek Tailings Dam, HydroPhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Water, Free, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, UraniumPast Producer1941, 1977
Saddle Creek-Ebersbach MinePhosphorus-Phosphates, Fluorine-Fluorite, Aluminum, Uranium, Iron, MagnesitePast Producer1968, 1985
Tenoroc MinePhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Magnesite, Iron, Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Water, FreePlant
Saddle Creek (The Williams Co.)Phosphorus-PhosphatesProspect1968, 1983

Every working recorded in Polk 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
Rawls Park0.1 miles13
Crystal Lake1.6 miles13
Fussels Corner2.4 miles13
Carters Corner2.7 miles13
Lakeland2.7 miles13
Fussells Corner3.0 miles13
Kossuthville3.3 miles13
Eaton Park3.4 miles13

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 Combee SettlementAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2428972The 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 1867126. 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.