Dunnellon, Florida
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Dunnellon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34432. It stands on Rainbow River. The Survey maps it on the Dunnellon quadrangle. 1,928 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 49 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1892 to 1991The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1892 against another survey:
On record in Dunnellon
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
Dunnellon Boomtown Historic Districtlisted 1988
Population over time
3 figuresDunnellon grew from 1,898 to 1,928 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,898 | |
| 2010 | 1,733 | -165 (-9%) |
| 2020 | 1,928 | +195 (+11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1892 USGS Dunnellon quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Dunnellon quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Dunnellon quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Dunnellon quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Ocala quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1991 USGS Dunnellon quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
248 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 248 fires within 5 miles of Dunnellon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,381 acres in total. 39 started naturally. 21 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 use | 71 |
| Natural | 39 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 35 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 33 |
| Debris and open burning | 25 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 21 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 09/AKOLA FIRE/0907 |
| 8 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 8 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 22 September 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 2003-08-1096 MARION |
| 10 September 2007 | Other causes | 10 acres | Florida Forest Service | 09/UNICORN PT/1070 |
| 7 August 1993 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 6 August 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 09/CANAGAN/0805 |
| 4 August 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 09/LOST-0561 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
27 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dunnellon in 27 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 14 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 4 heavy rain, 2 flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunnellon | $15,000 | Marion County Public Safety reported damage to a residence along Powell Road as the result of thunderstorm winds. A residence had a metal roof pulled from it, and then damaged 3 other nearby homes. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunnellon | $15,000 | Roof blown off barn. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunnellon | $2,500 | Large trees and power lines were blown down. |
| September 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunnellon | $2,500 | Large trees and power lines were blown down. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunnellon | $2,000 | Numerous trees blown down. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunnellon | $1,500 | Large trees and power lines were blown down. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunnellon | $500 | A large tree was blown down and blocked the road at SW 136 Court at SW 109th. The cost of damage was unknown, but it was estimated for the event to be included in StormData. |
| March 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunnellon | $500 | Large branches from pine tree snapped off by thunderstorm winds and landed on car. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunnellon | $500 | Large trees were blown down along HWY 41 North of HWY 40. |
| January 2023 | Funnel Cloud | Dunnellon | - | A funnel cloud was observed near Dunnellon. |
| March 2022 | Tornado (EF1) | Dunnellon | - | A line of strong to severe thunderstorms moved east across Marion county early Saturday morning, March 12th. A tornado touched down in Dunnellon where a large billboard was knocked over and siding was peeled off of a small professional building. Trees were damaged, snapped and uprooted. The next concentration of damage was reported on the south and east sides of Ocala where many trees were blown down and/or uprooted. Powerlines were blown down and numerous residences and an apartment building had damage. Damage in Ocala concentrated near SW 44th Court where some structural damage occurred and tree and powerline damage occurred. Another damaged local was near SW 41st Street near the Paddock Park Apartments where extensive roof damage occurred due to a large tree falling on the building. The county had to open an emergency shelter to house about 6 people displaced from the tornado. The peak winds of the tornado were estimated near 110 mph. |
| June 2019 | Heavy Rain | Dunnellon | - | A spotter measured 1.12 inches of rainfall within 23 minutes near the intersection of Highway 40 and U.S. Highway 41 in Dunnellon. |
| April 2018 | Heavy Rain | Dunnellon | - | A spotter reported 1.5 inches of rainfall in 45 minutes. |
| December 2018 | Flood | Dunnellon | - | Minor flooding in Dunnellon. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Dunnellon | - | Penny size hail was reported off of Highway 488. |
| June 2015 | Heavy Rain | Dunnellon | - | About 2 inches of rainfall occurred in less than one hour. Minor street flooding was observed. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunnellon | - | Trees and power lines were were damaged near Dunnellon. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunnellon | - | Numerous trees were blown down in Dunnellon. The time of damage was based on radar. |
| April 2009 | Heavy Rain | Dunnellon | - | Marion County Emergency Management reported a sinkhole developed north of Dunnellon due to heavy rainfall over the past day. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Dunnellon | - | Reported as ping-pong ball sized hail. |
| October 2002 | Flood | Dunnellon | - | Powell Road closed due to street flooding. Storm spotter reported 1.8 inches of rain in 20 minutes in Dunnelon. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunnellon | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunnellon | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunnellon | - | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Tornado (F1) | Dunnellon | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Dunnellon | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Dunnellon | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chatmire | 1.3 miles | 18 | |
| Rainbow Falls (historical) | 3.9 miles | 18 | |
| Rainbow Springs | 4.8 miles | 18 | |
| Rocksprings | 6.3 miles | 18 | |
| Rolling Ranches | 6.3 miles | 17 | |
| Rainbow Lakes Estates | 7.0 miles | 17 | |
| Luddersville | 7.7 miles | 17 | |
| Rolling Hills | 8.2 miles | 17 |
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 Dunnellon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2154101 | The 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 281879. 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.








