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Intercession City, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Kissimmee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33848. It lies near Buckles Bend. The Survey maps it on the Intercession City quadrangle. It stands 69 feet above sea level.

Intercession City within Osceola County

Then and now

1953 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 26 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Intercession City, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Intercession City, surveyed 1953

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

91 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Intercession City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,494 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 16 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
Natural22
Arson/incendiarism16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use13
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Debris and open burning8
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
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
30 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.8 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSAND PINE (06)
3 August 2006Natural15 acresFlorida Forest Service53 TANK
7 July 2001Natural75 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 July 1999Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 July 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 July 1996Natural75 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 July 2007Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHOG PEN (06)
7 June 2000Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Osceola County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Intercession City: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Loughman MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Standard Sand and Silica - Davenport MineSandProducer

Every working recorded in Osceola County

Storms near this place

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Intercession City in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2016: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. The reports record 25 deaths and 145 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
February 1998Tornado (F3)Intercession City25 killed, 145 hurt, $50,000,000The deadliest tornado of the outbreak was a category F3 that touched down initially one mile south of Intercession City. The tornado moved northeast at 45 mph and ripped through the town of Kissimmee killing 25 people. The hardest hit areas were the Morningside Acres mobile home community and the Ponderosa Recreational Vehicle Park. In all eight people were killed in recreational vehicles, fifteen in mobile homes and one in an automobile. The tornado continued northeast and moved into Orange County six miles north of St. Cloud. One hundred and fifty people were injured and over 1000 structures were damaged or destroyed.
March 2016HailIntercession City$50,000A long lasting severe thunderstorm moved from Polk County into northwest Osceola County and dropped hail between quarter and golf ball size for over 10 minutes. The hail piled up to over a foot deep at the peak of the storm in portions of Poinciana. Some hail damage occurred to the siding of homes, pool screens, recreational vehicles and cars.
February 2014HailIntercession City-Quarter size hail reported in Indian Creek Subdivision on Poinciana Blvd. four miles south of US-192. Report relayed via social media.
April 2009HailIntercession City-Quarter sized hail report from Florida Division of Emergency Management.
August 2005HailIntercession City-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindIntercession City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Osceola 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
Campbell2.7 miles13
Celebration4.5 miles13
Reunion5.5 miles13
Kissimmee5.7 miles13
ChampionsGate5.9 miles13
Poinciana Place7.3 miles12
Poinciana8.8 miles12
Buenaventura Lakes9.6 miles14

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 Intercession CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6045672The 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 284561. 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.