Fort White, Florida
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fort White census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32038. The Survey maps it on the Fort White quadrangle. 618 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 69 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1954 to 1981The same ground, surveyed 27 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in Fort White
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 2 records
Fort White Public School Historic Districtlisted 1989
Sikes Houselisted 2007
Population over time
2 figuresFort White grew from 567 to 618 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 567 | |
| 2020 | 618 | +51 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1954 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Fort White quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1981 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
189 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 189 fires within 5 miles of Fort White between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,550 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 6 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 burning | 67 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 46 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 33 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 15 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | HILLIARD LN(12) |
| 17 August 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | WASHINGTON ST (12) |
| 1 August 1999 | Natural | 4.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 31 July 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | SANDERS WAY (12) |
| 22 July 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | MILL (12) |
| 15 July 2000 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 7 June 2011 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | ELIM CHURCH ROAD (12) |
| 3 June 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort White in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fort White | $500 | Large trees blown down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woftoka (historical) | 2.8 miles | 10 | |
| Hollingsworth Bluff | 4.0 miles | 10 | |
| Mikesville | 6.1 miles | 10 | |
| Ellisville | 8.3 miles | 9 | |
| Mason | 10.1 miles | 9 | |
| Columbia | 10.4 miles | 8 | |
| Myrtis | 11.5 miles | 9 | |
| Bass | 12.8 miles | 8 |
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 White | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1004724 | 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 282713. 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.




