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.
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.


Population over time
2 figuresHomosassa 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 13,791 | |
| 2020 | 14,283 | +492 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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 Homosassa quadrangle1:24000, 4 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
280 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 51 |
| Debris and open burning | 48 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 45 |
| Natural | 38 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 37 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 24 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 22 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | CHICKEN FIRE (09) |
| 4 September 2001 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 3 September 2014 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | CANDLENUT (09) |
| 28 September 2005 | Natural | 7.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 09/ OAK RIDGE FIRE 0647 |
| 26 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 09/SLASH PINE FIRE/1002 |
| 2 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 2 September 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 18 September 2014 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | CEMETERY (09) |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Material Exchange Corp. - Homosassa Mine | Sand | Unknown |
Storms near this place
6 since 2009Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2020 | Lightning | Homosassa Springs | 2 hurt | Two children ages 4 and 11 received minor injuries while outdoors due to lightning strike across street from yard. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homosassa Springs | $3,000 | Multiple trees and power lines down near the 5400 block of South Rovan Point. |
| January 2011 | Lightning | Homosassa Springs | $3,000 | A car was struck by lightning at Central State College in Lecanto, causing minor damage. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homosassa Springs | $1,000 | Citrus 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 2023 | Hail | Homosassa Springs | - | Picture received from public showed ping-pong ball size hail near Homosassa Springs. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Homosassa Springs | - | The public reported penny sized hail near the intersection of U.S. 19 and Homosassa Trail. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homosassa | 2.6 miles | 15 | |
| Cutlers | 4.1 miles | 15 | |
| Ozello | 4.6 miles | 17 | |
| Paradise Point | 5.6 miles | 14 | |
| Lecanto | 5.7 miles | 25 | |
| Sugarmill Woods | 6.2 miles | 15 | |
| Chassahowitzka | 6.2 miles | 15 | |
| Big Hammock (historical) | 6.7 miles | 25 |
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 Springs | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1626252 | 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 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.






