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Dundee, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Haines City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33838. The Survey maps it on the Dundee quadrangle. 5,235 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 161 feet above sea level.

Dundee within Polk County

Then and now

1953 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 26 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Dundee, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Dundee, surveyed 1953

Compare 1953 against another survey:

On record in Dundee

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Dundee grew from 2,912 to 5,235 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
20002,912
20103,717+805 (+28%)
20205,235+1,518 (+41%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

138 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Dundee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 703 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 10 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
Debris and open burning36
Railroad operations and maintenance33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use18
Arson/incendiarism10
Natural9
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking3
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
25 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use15 acresFlorida Forest ServiceALFORD RD (53)
23 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBANNON (53)
13 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceTIMBERLANE COMMAND
11 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 August 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCHICKEN COOP
30 August 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 August 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTRAIL ROAD (53)
16 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Dundee: 3 prospects, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Diatomite, Peat. 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
Green Leaf Products - Dundee PeatPeatProducerPeat
Reliable Peat - Lake TraskPeatProducerPeat
Unnamed Diatomate ProspectDiatomiteProspect
Unnamed Diatomite DepositDiatomiteOccurrence
Unnamed Diatomite ProsectDiatomiteProspect
Unnamed Diatomite ProspectDiatomiteProspect

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dundee in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2007: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
August 2005LightningDundee1 hurt, $10,000A man working at his computer was shocked by a nearby lightning strike and was taken to the hospital. Excessive lightning in Polk County also caused a power transformer in Avon Park to catch fire, ignited a tree in Lakeland, and caused minor damage to four homes in the Lakeland area.
April 2007Tornado (EF0)Dundee$250,000Damage photographs and eyewitness accounts from a police officer have determined that a tornado with 80 MPH winds caused damage near Dundee. The track began near the Cypresswood Golf and Country Club then tracked east-northeast across Highway 27 into Dundee where it caused moderate damage to manufactured homes in Dell Lake Village before lifting. Severe of the manufactured homes were uninhabitable due to roof damage. Nine other manufactured homes received damage to awnings, car ports, and parts of the roof.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindDundee$20,000Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree atop a home in Dundee. The roof of the home sustained minor to moderate damage. Two mobile homes sustained major roof damage from thunderstorm winds at the Royal Oak mobile home park.

Every storm 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
Lake Hamilton1.6 miles12
Eastwood2.7 miles12
Waverly3.0 miles20
Poinsettia Park3.9 miles12
Cypress Gardens4.2 miles17
Eloise Woods4.3 miles12
Lake of the Hills4.8 miles20
Lucerne Park5.0 miles12

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 DundeeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1965179The 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 281858. 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.