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High Point, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Spring Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34613. The Survey maps it on the Weeki Wachee Spring quadrangle. 3,873 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 70 feet above sea level.

High Point within Hernando County

Then and now

1954 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 25 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of High Point, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of High Point, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Population over time

3 figures

High Point grew from 2,973 to 3,873 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
20002,973
20103,686+713 (+24%)
20203,873+187 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

473 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 473 fires within 5 miles of High Point between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,197 acres in total. 55 started naturally. 79 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 use86
Railroad operations and maintenance85
Arson/incendiarism79
Debris and open burning57
Misuse of fire by a minor55
Natural55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking2
Fireworks1
Other causes1

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
9 September 1996Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2020Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePOND (27)
5 September 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service27-GOLD STAR-0954
24 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceDRY CREEK/1187
22 September 1992Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 September 1992Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2011Natural20 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBUSH MILLS (27)
18 September 2008Debris and open burning1.5 acresFlorida Forest Service27/AMITY ROAD FIRE/0936

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Brookridge1.8 miles16
Norman2.1 miles16
Wiscon3.3 miles16
Weeki Wachee3.3 miles14
Willow Sink4.3 miles15
Berkeley4.6 miles14
Spring Hill4.8 miles15
Palm Grove Colony5.4 miles16

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 High PointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2570641The 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 2407583. 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.