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Homosassa Springs, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Crystal River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34448. It stands on Halls River. The Survey maps it on the Homosassa quadrangle. 14,283 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7 feet above sea level.

Homosassa Springs within Citrus 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 Homosassa Springs, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Homosassa Springs, surveyed 1954

Population over time

2 figures

Homosassa Springs grew from 13,791 to 14,283 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
201013,791
202014,283+492 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

280 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 280 fires within 5 miles of Homosassa Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,067 acres in total. 38 started naturally. 37 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/undetermined51
Debris and open burning48
Railroad operations and maintenance45
Natural38
Arson/incendiarism37
Equipment and vehicle use24
Misuse of fire by a minor22
Recreation and ceremony8
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking1
Fireworks1

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 2020Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCHICKEN FIRE (09)
4 September 2001Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2014Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCANDLENUT (09)
28 September 2005Natural7.0 acresFlorida Forest Service09/ OAK RIDGE FIRE 0647
26 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service09/SLASH PINE FIRE/1002
2 September 2001Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2014Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCEMETERY (09)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Citrus County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Homosassa Springs: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand. 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
Material Exchange Corp. - Homosassa MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Citrus County

Storms near this place

6 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Homosassa Springs in 6 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 2 hail, 2 lightning, 2 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
May 2020LightningHomosassa Springs2 hurtTwo children ages 4 and 11 received minor injuries while outdoors due to lightning strike across street from yard.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindHomosassa Springs$3,000Multiple trees and power lines down near the 5400 block of South Rovan Point.
January 2011LightningHomosassa Springs$3,000A car was struck by lightning at Central State College in Lecanto, causing minor damage.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindHomosassa Springs$1,000Citrus County Emergency Management reported some tree limbs and small branches were knocked down. A sign mounted on a metal pipe was also knocked down, but the pipe was reported to be old and rusted.
May 2023HailHomosassa Springs-Picture received from public showed ping-pong ball size hail near Homosassa Springs.
August 2009HailHomosassa Springs-The public reported penny sized hail near the intersection of U.S. 19 and Homosassa Trail.

Every storm recorded in Citrus 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
Homosassa2.6 miles15
Cutlers4.1 miles15
Ozello4.6 miles17
Paradise Point5.6 miles14
Lecanto5.7 miles25
Sugarmill Woods6.2 miles15
Chassahowitzka6.2 miles15
Big Hammock (historical)6.7 miles25

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 Homosassa SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1626252The 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 284223. 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.