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Dunedin, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Clearwater census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34698. It stands on Cedar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dunedin quadrangle. 36,068 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 30 feet above sea level.

Dunedin within Pinellas County

Then and now

1943 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 55 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Dunedin, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Dunedin, surveyed 1943

On record in Dunedin

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 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Dunedin grew from 35,321 to 36,068 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
201035,321
202036,068+747 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

17 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Dunedin between 1992 and 2017, burning about 76 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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 maintenance3
Arson/incendiarism3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
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
12 July 1994Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 June 2010Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service52 SAFETY HARBOR FIRE
21 June 1998Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 May 2007Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresFlorida Forest Service52 LK ST.GEORGE
24 May 1993Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 May 1992Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 May 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSUBSTATION
11 May 1993Equipment and vehicle use15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pinellas County

Storms near this place

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dunedin in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2017: 3 lightning, 1 waterspout, 1 flood, 1 hail. The reports record 4 injuries. 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
June 2000LightningDunedin3 hurtPinellas County Fire Rescue reported that a lightning surge travelled through phone lines and injured three people at the Neilson Media Research Center in Dunedin.
July 1998LightningDunedin1 hurt, $20,000Lightning struck a building and injured a 44 year-old firefighter while indoors near the intersection of U.S. Highway 19 and Republic Drive. The firefighter suffered muscle and nerve damage in his right arm and shoulder from the lightning shock. The lightning injury occurred while the firefighter was holding open an elevator door when lightning struck and travelled through the elevator shaft of the building. The lightning also damaged electrical equipment within the building.
February 1998FloodDunedin$20,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindDunedin$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed two large trees and several large branches along Mira Vista Drive near Alternate U.S. Highway 19 in Dunedin.
July 2017LightningDunedin-Pinellas County 911 reported that a lightning strike caused a fire in the attic of an apartment complex in Dunedin, severely damaging two of the units. Three fire fighters were injured while attempting to put out the fire.
May 2015Heavy RainDunedin-Pinellas County Emergency Management relayed a report of a roof to an apartment building that collapsed under the weight of heavy rain pooling on the roof. The roof was under construction at the time of the incident.
July 1999HailDunedin-Quarter sized hail was reported on Mira Vista Drive near Alternate U.S. Highway 19 by a Hillsborough County Emergency Coordinator.
September 1997WaterspoutDunedin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pinellas 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
Dunedin Isles1.1 miles17
Harbor View1.6 miles17
Mecca1.6 miles16
Curlew2.8 miles16
Coachman3.4 miles20
Ozona3.4 miles17
Saint George3.4 miles16
Clearwater4.0 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 DunedinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q990918The 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 281860. 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.