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.
Then and now
1954 to 1979The 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.


Compare 1954 against another survey:
Population over time
3 figuresHigh 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 2,973 | |
| 2010 | 3,686 | +713 (+24%) |
| 2020 | 3,873 | +187 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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 Weeki Wachee Spring quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Weekiwachee Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Inverness quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
473 since 1992Regional 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 use | 86 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 85 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 79 |
| Debris and open burning | 57 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 55 |
| Natural | 55 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 39 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 5 September 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | POND (27) |
| 5 September 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 27-GOLD STAR-0954 |
| 24 September 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | DRY CREEK/1187 |
| 22 September 1992 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 22 September 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 21 September 2011 | Natural | 20 acres | Florida Forest Service | BUSH MILLS (27) |
| 18 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | 27/AMITY ROAD FIRE/0936 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brookridge | 1.8 miles | 16 | |
| Norman | 2.1 miles | 16 | |
| Wiscon | 3.3 miles | 16 | |
| Weeki Wachee | 3.3 miles | 14 | |
| Willow Sink | 4.3 miles | 15 | |
| Berkeley | 4.6 miles | 14 | |
| Spring Hill | 4.8 miles | 15 | |
| Palm Grove Colony | 5.4 miles | 16 |
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 Point | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2570641 | 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 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.







