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Hernando Beach, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Hernando Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34607. It lies near Little Pine Island. The Survey maps it on the Aripeka quadrangle. 2,452 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.

Hernando Beach within Hernando County

Then and now

1954 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 24 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hernando Beach, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Hernando Beach, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Population over time

3 figures

Hernando Beach grew from 2,185 to 2,452 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
20002,185
20102,299+114 (+5%)
20202,452+153 (+7%)

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

120 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Hernando Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,600 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 18 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 use48
Natural20
Arson/incendiarism18
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Debris and open burning5
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
10 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 1993Equipment and vehicle use12 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service27/PALM TREE FIRE/1020
19 August 1998Natural750 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 August 1998Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 August 1997Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 August 1997Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 August 2020Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSHOAL LINE BLVD (27)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hernando County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Hernando Beach: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Belcher MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Oman Constr. - Aripeka MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Sun West Mining - Sun West MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Hernando County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hernando Beach in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2022Tornado (EF1)Hernando Beach$50,000A line of strong to severe thunderstorms produced a|tornado as the line moved onshore near Weeki Wachee. Observers|reported a waterspout moving onshore shortly after 8AM, with some|minor damage observed and reported in the vicinity. The tornado|then trekked inland through a protected forest, knocking down|trees along a river. Eventually, the tornado emerged in a|neighborhood and continued to knock down trees before dissipating|just before US19 and SR50.
May 2022FloodHernando Beach$30,000FDEM relayed report called into Hernando County Sheriff Office by public of 3 to 4 feet of water covering road along Spring Hill Drive between U.S. Hwy 19 and Pinehurst Drive, requiring water rescues from some stalled vehicles. Caller shared video on social media also.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindHernando Beach$10,000Broadcast media relayed a report of down burst winds that knocked over power poles and trees, and damaged a car port and balcony near Gulf Winds Circle and Gulf View Drive in Hernando Beach. The time was estimated from radar.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindHernando Beach$8,000The public reported to the media that there were trees down and a pool cage was damaged that caused holes in the roof of the home in Hernando Beach.

Every storm recorded in Hernando 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
Weekiwachee Gardens2.4 miles14
Timber Pines3.0 miles15
Weekiwachee Woodlands3.3 miles15
Weeki Wachee Acres3.4 miles15
Berkeley4.4 miles14
Weeki Wachee Gardens4.7 miles16
Bayport5.3 miles16
Weeki Wachee5.6 miles14

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 Hernando BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2570666The 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 1867152. 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.