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Istachatta, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Brooksville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34601. The Survey maps it on the Nobleton quadrangle. 126 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 59 feet above sea level.

Istachatta within Hernando 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 Istachatta, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Istachatta, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Population over time

3 figures

Istachatta grew from 65 to 126 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
200065
2010116+51 (+78%)
2020126+10 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

135 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Istachatta between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,518 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 7 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
Debris and open burning40
Railroad operations and maintenance27
Equipment and vehicle use21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Natural11
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Arson/incendiarism7
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
15 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service60/HAY BALE FIRE 0629
13 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2008Natural30 acresFlorida Forest Service27/COUNTRY FIRE/0813
8 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 August 1996Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 August 2000Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 August 2005Debris and open burning8.0 acresFlorida Forest Service60/PLANTATION FIRE 0592
1 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceDIRT BIKE (09)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hernando County

Storms near this place

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Istachatta in 1 storm report in 1999: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 1999Thunderstorm WindIstachatta$2,000A Skywarn Spotter reported that thunderstorm winds snapped the tops off two large pine and one oak tree and downed several large ten inch limbs three miles west of Istachatta.

Every storm recorded in Hernando 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
Nobleton1.2 miles14
Lake Lindsey4.7 miles14
Croom5.6 miles14
Conrock8.0 miles14
Rerdell9.1 miles14
North Brooksville9.2 miles16
Terrell9.2 miles14
Brooksville9.3 miles16

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 IstachattaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2571667The 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 284632. 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.

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.