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Holiday, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the New Port Richey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34690. The Survey maps it on the Elfers quadrangle. 24,939 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Holiday within Pasco County

Then and now

1943 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 55 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Holiday, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Holiday, surveyed 1943

Compare 1943 against another survey:

On record in Holiday

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Holiday grew from 22,403 to 24,939 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
201022,403
202024,939+2,536 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

115 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Holiday between 1992 and 2020, burning about 909 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 33 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
Arson/incendiarism33
Misuse of fire by a minor19
Equipment and vehicle use18
Natural17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Recreation and ceremony7
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
23 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service51/ANCLOTE FIRE-0987
1 September 1999Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 August 1997Natural28 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 August 2020Natural102 acresFlorida Forest ServiceKEYSTONE BIKE TRAIL (52)**
7 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceRUSHMORE (51)
4 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 July 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 July 2008Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service51/DOVE/0766

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pasco County

Storms near this place

27 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holiday in 27 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 flood, 4 heavy rain, 4 hail. 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
April 2009Tornado (EF1)Holiday$240,000There were 50 homes with light damage, and seven homes with moderate or greater damage. Several tree trunks were snapped, some half-way up the trunk, and several trees were uprooted. One business had minor roof damage with awnings and a fence destroyed. The damage path was narrow and not continuous. Winds were estimated at 95mph.
September 2001Flash FloodHoliday$150,000no account filed
July 2014LightningHoliday$100,000Broadcast media reported and Pasco County Fire and Rescue responded to a house fire caused by a direct lightning strike. The home was totally engulfed in flames and also caused damage to neighbors homes. No injuries were reported, but two dogs were killed in the fire.
August 2000FloodHoliday$100,000Heavy rainfall of six to eight inches in less than three hours caused localized urban flooding from Palm Harbor in Pinellas county north along the U.S. Highway corridor to New Port Richey in Pasco county. Several vehicles incurred water damage from the urban floodwaters at low-lying intersections along the U.S. Highway 19 corridor in both Pinellas and Pasco counties.
November 1997FloodHoliday$100,000Urban flooding caused rug damage to a few homes and vehicles in low lying areas west of U.S. Highway 19 from Holiday north to New Port Richey.
February 1998FloodHoliday$40,000no account filed
August 2013Thunderstorm WindHoliday$30,000The Florida State Watch Office relayed a report of 13 damaged mobile homes in the Holiday area. They also reported numerous downed trees and powerlines in the vicinity.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindHoliday$25,000Multiple trees were reported down near Holiday.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindHoliday$25,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and power lines east of Holiday near State Road 54.
August 2000FloodHoliday$25,000no account filed
August 2025LightningHoliday$10,000Social media post relayed a drone video of a lightning-caused fire at an apartment complex in Holiday. No injuries were reported.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindHoliday$10,000HAM radio operator reported trees downed on powerlines and across road near Colonial Hills near Moog Road and US Highway 19.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindHoliday$5,000Online newspaper posted photo of damage to a carport attached to a mobile home near the intersection of Buena Vista Lane and Kemper Drive in Holiday.
January 2017Thunderstorm WindHoliday$5,000An amateur radio operator reported that multiple trees were down near US19 and Flora Avenue.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindHoliday$1,000Local broadcast media relayed a report of a downed tree on Conoley Lane in Holiday.
July 2022HailHoliday-Trained Spotter reported hail up to a penny size in Holiday.
July 2012Heavy RainHoliday-Heavy rain caused street flooding in Holiday around the intersection of US Highway 19 and US Alternate Highway 19.
June 2007Heavy RainHoliday-Rainfall of 4.16 inches was recorded. Widespread rainfall of 2 to 4 inches was observed across the county.
May 2005HailHoliday-Hail covered the parking lot at the intersection of Little Road and State Road 54. Numerous reports of hail covering the ground.
July 2001HailHoliday-The media reported nickel sized hail near the intersection of U.S. Highway 19 and State Road 54 near Holiday, Florida.
August 2000Heavy RainHoliday-A Skywarn Spotter reported 6.26 inches of rainfall fell in Holiday in less than six hours.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindHoliday-Thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph was reported by a Skywarn Spotter.
June 1997Heavy RainHoliday-Heavy rain of three to five inches in two hours occurred along the U.S. Highway 19 corridor in Holiday.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindHoliday-A Skywarn Spotter reported a wind gust to 60 mph.
September 1997WaterspoutHoliday-A waterspout developed and lasted for nineteen minutes before it dissipated, one mile west southwest of Anclote Key.
June 2000FloodHoliday-no account filed
April 1997HailHoliday-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pasco 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
Forest Hills0.8 miles17
Beacon Lakes1.7 miles17
Beacon Square1.7 miles18
Elfers2.2 miles17
Anclote2.3 miles18
Trinity3.1 miles17
Gulf Harbors3.4 miles18
New Port Richey4.0 miles17

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 HolidayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2126669The 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 284144. 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.