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Inwood, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Winter Haven-Auburndale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33881. The Survey maps it on the Auburndale quadrangle. 7,031 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 144 feet above sea level.

Inwood within Polk County

Then and now

1944 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 50 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Inwood, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Inwood, surveyed 1944

Compare 1944 against another survey:

Population over time

3 figures

Inwood grew from 6,925 to 7,031 between 2000 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
20006,925
20106,403-522 (-8%)
20207,031+628 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

145 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Inwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 720 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 12 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
Railroad operations and maintenance46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use18
Debris and open burning17
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Arson/incendiarism12
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony4
Fireworks2
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1

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
8 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceGRAY (53)
30 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceKVILLE (53)
7 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 1993Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 July 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 July 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder 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

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Inwood: 2 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Fluorine-Fluorite, Aluminum, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Clay. 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
Macasphalt - AuburndaleClayProducerClay
Saddle Creek - EbersbachPhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, UraniumPast Producer1968
Saddle Creek-Ebersbach MinePhosphorus-Phosphates, Fluorine-Fluorite, Aluminum, Uranium, Iron, MagnesitePast Producer1968, 1985
Saddle Creek (The Williams Co.)Phosphorus-PhosphatesProspect1968, 1983

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Inwood in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2011: 2 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
May 2011HailInwood-A trained spotter reported quarter sized hail near Auburndale.
June 2009HailInwood-Quarter sized hail was reported south of Auburndale.

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
Jan-Phyl Village1.6 miles13
Winter Haven2.0 miles12
Tranquility Park2.2 miles12
Auburndale2.3 miles13
Florence Villa2.6 miles12
Jones Corner2.6 miles13
Lake Shipp Heights3.0 miles17
Eloise3.2 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 InwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2185315The 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 284580. 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.