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Fort Green Springs, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Wauchula census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33834. It stands on Shirttail Branch. The Survey maps it on the Fort Green quadrangle. 190 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 115 feet above sea level.

Fort Green Springs within Hardee County

Then and now

1955 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 33 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fort Green Springs, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Fort Green Springs, surveyed 1955

Compare 1955 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Fort Green Springs fell from 231 to 190 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
2010231
2020190-41 (-18%)

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

68 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Fort Green Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,163 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 2 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
Natural17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Debris and open burning12
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Equipment and vehicle use8
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2

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 1996Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2016Natural80 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSTREAMSONG (53)
5 July 2004Natural50 acresFlorida Forest ServiceC.F. IND. FIRE
20 July 2019Natural330 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSTREAMSONG (53)**
11 July 2014Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSTATE ROAD SIXTY TWO (25)
30 June 1998Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 June 2020Natural15 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSTREAMSONG 2020 (53)
21 June 2015Natural8.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMOYE 62 (25)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardee County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Fort Green Springs: 2 prospects, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Iron, Uranium, Magnesite, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Uranium, Iron, Aluminum, Magnesite, Fluorine-Fluorite, Aluminum, Uranium, Magnesite, Iron, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
CF Hardee MinePhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Uranium, Magnesite, Iron, Fluorine-FluoriteUnknown1975, 1978
Gardinier South Hardee DepositPhosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Iron, Aluminum, Magnesite, Fluorine-FluoriteProspect1974
Little Payne CreekPhosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Fluorine-FluoriteUnknown1950
Olliff OptionPhosphorus-Phosphates, Iron, Uranium, Magnesite, Aluminum, Fluorine-FluoriteProspectChemical Sediment, Marine
C.F. Industries - South PasturePhosphorus-PhosphatesProducerCollophane

Every working recorded in Hardee 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
Fort Green1.5 miles14
Vandolah5.3 miles14
Torrey6.1 miles15
Wauchula Hills6.4 miles15
Coker6.8 miles15
Bowling Green6.9 miles15
Wauchula7.4 miles15
Ona7.6 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 Fort Green SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5864134The 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 282686. 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.