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Cypress Quarters, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Okeechobee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34972. The Survey maps it on the Taylor Creek SE quadrangle. 1,029 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 26 feet above sea level.

Cypress Quarters within Okeechobee County

Then and now

1953 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 35 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cypress Quarters, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Cypress Quarters, surveyed 1953

Population over time

2 figures

Cypress Quarters fell from 1,215 to 1,029 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
20101,215
20201,029-186 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

395 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 395 fires within 5 miles of Cypress Quarters between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,062 acres in total. 63 started naturally. 27 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 maintenance80
Natural63
Debris and open burning63
Missing data/not specified/undetermined57
Misuse of fire by a minor40
Arson/incendiarism27
Equipment and vehicle use26
Power generation/transmission/distribution24
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony5
Fireworks3
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
7 September 1992Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2015Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSMOKE HOUSE (47)
4 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2009Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(OK) ORLANDO FIRE (710)
24 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service2003-16-1280
18 September 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Okeechobee County

Storms near this place

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cypress Quarters in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 2 funnel cloud, 1 hail, 1 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
October 2024Tornado (EF1)Cypress Quarters$1,200,000Based on radar analysis and public video provided to the NWS, the tornado touched down immediately south of SR-70. At this location, irrigation equipment was flipped over, indicative of EF-0 winds of 75 - 85 mph.||The tornado continued northeast to NE 120th St., where an outbuilding suffered damage to its metal roof; the roof was not torn off. Nearby hardwood trees were toppled and large branches were broken off, including at the entrance to Sunshine Grove (the site of the Okeechobee Music Festival). The damage in this area was consistent with EF-0 to EF-1 winds of 75 to 95 mph.||From there, the tornado traveled over mainly undeveloped land on approach to 45th Terrace and NE 224th St. Though no damage was observed due to inaccessibility, dual polarimetric radar indicates that the tornado remained on the ground during this period. Along 45th Terrace, the tornado passed over a portion of a commercial farm. At least two small homes suffered significant roof damage, and a semi truck and attached flatbed trailer were turned on its side. Again, this damage was of EF-0 or EF-1 |intensity.||The most significant damage on its path occurred at the Pine Creek Sporting Club, which is north of NE 224th St. Here, three well-constructed wood frame outbuildings were destroyed. Two of the buildings were at least partially open-front. On two of the buildings, heavy duty posts were sheared off at the ground as the roof gave way. On the third building, some of the posts were ripped out of the ground as the roof was lifted. Debris was strewn a large distance northward from these locations. According to an employee, one UTV was tossed into a live oak tree. The nearby cabins were spared of all but minor damage. Many hardwood trees were either uprooted or large branches snapped. It was concluded that high-end EF-1 damage occurred at the Pine Creek Sporting Club, with winds from 100 - 110 mph.||The tornado continued northwest, passing over open pasture before reaching a stand of hardwood trees along US-441. Many trees along US-441 were snapped; at least a couple were snapped down at the trunk. This was also consistent with EF-1 winds. According to dual polarimetric radar data, the tornado continued a short distance |northwest from this location before lifting to the south of Fort Drum.
April 2013HailCypress Quarters-A report relayed from NSSL indicated nickel size hail fell 5 miles east-northeast of Four Seasons Estates in Okeechobee County.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindCypress Quarters-West Palm Beach media forwarded a report that a trailer was blown onto its side and moved 100 feet due to the winds from a severe thunderstorm. Nearby, a large oak tree was split in half due to the high winds.
June 2012Funnel CloudCypress Quarters-An off-duty sheriff's office deputy sighted a large funnel cloud for several minutes northeast of his location at the 8000 block of State Road 70 West.
April 2010Funnel CloudCypress Quarters-A funnel cloud developed along a line of low-topped showers in eastern Okeechobee County. These showers occurred along a sea and lake breeze convergence boundary on the northeast side of Lake Okeechobee. The funnel cloud lasted about 7 minutes, and was located around 3 miles east-northeast of the city of Okeechobee, Florida.

Every storm recorded in Okeechobee 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
Okeechobee1.0 miles15
Barber Quarters1.3 miles14
Whispering Pines2.2 miles14
Taylor Creek2.8 miles15
Basswood Estates2.9 miles14
Sherman4.2 miles15
Mildred6.6 miles13
Up the Grove Beach7.0 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 Cypress QuartersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q520499The 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 281241. 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.

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.