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Homeland, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Bartow census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33847. The Survey maps it on the Homeland quadrangle. 305 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Homeland within Polk County

Then and now

1952 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 36 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Homeland, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Homeland, surveyed 1952

On record in Homeland

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

Homeland fell from 366 to 305 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
2010366
2020305-61 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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

180 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 180 fires within 5 miles of Homeland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,586 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 15 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined44
Equipment and vehicle use36
Railroad operations and maintenance31
Debris and open burning22
Natural16
Arson/incendiarism15
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 September 2006Natural10 acresFlorida Forest Service53 CLARK FIRE
3 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Homeland: 5 producers, 3 prospects, 2 plants, 2 past producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Fluorine-Fluorite, Aluminum, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Fluorine-Fluorite, Uranium, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium. 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
Clear SpringsPhosphorus-Phosphates, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Aluminum, Fluorine-FluoritePast Producer1950
Fort Meade Mine - MobilPhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Fluorine-Fluorite, Water, FreePlant1966
Fort Meade Mine MobilPhosphorus-Phosphates, Fluorine-Fluorite, Uranium, Aluminum, Magnesite, IronProducer1967
Clear Springs MinePhosphorus-Phosphates, Fluorine-Fluorite, Uranium, Iron, Aluminum, MagnesiteProducer1966
Fort Meade Mine MobilPhosphorus-Phosphates, Fluorine-Fluorite, UraniumProspect1983
Noralyn/PhosphoriaPhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, UraniumPast Producer1920, 1948
Noralyn/Phosphoria MinesPhosphorus-Phosphates, Fluorine-Fluorite, Uranium, Iron, Aluminum, MagnesiteProducerCollophane
Rockland MinePhosphorus-Phosphates, Fluorine-Fluorite, Aluminum, Uranium, Iron, MagnesiteProducer1920, 1968
Silver CityPhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, UraniumPlant1906, 1930
Silver CityPhosphorus-Phosphates, Fluorine-Fluorite, UraniumProspect1906, 1962, 1983

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Homeland in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 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 2017HailHomeland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
Pembroke2.4 miles16
Oponys Town (historical)2.7 miles16
Barcola3.3 miles15
Agricola4.1 miles15
Tiger Bay4.2 miles16
Fort Meade4.7 miles16
Green Bay5.4 miles15
Cox Corner5.4 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 HomelandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5889489The 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 284212. 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.