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Istokpoga, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Sebring census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33876. It stands on Yellow Bluff Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lorida quadrangle.

Istokpoga within Highlands County

Then and now

1952 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 36 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Istokpoga, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Istokpoga, surveyed 1952

Compare 1952 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

307 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 307 fires within 5 miles of Istokpoga between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,638 acres in total. 39 started naturally. 21 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 burning65
Railroad operations and maintenance61
Equipment and vehicle use45
Natural39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism21
Power generation/transmission/distribution17
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking6
Fireworks2
Other causes1

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 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(HI) PORCH FIRE - 1401
30 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(HI) PEAT FIRE (1204)
26 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(HI) AL (1492)
18 September 2009Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(HI) ANTHROP (0701)
15 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHI- 66 FIRE-1189
6 August 2007Natural5.1 acresFlorida Forest Service(HI) SINGLE MAN ON CALL (1054)
4 August 2006Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(HI) HALLMARK (1248)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Highlands 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 Istokpoga: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Peat. 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
Tu-Co Peat - Tu-Co PitPeatProducerPeat

Every working recorded in Highlands County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Istokpoga in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2022: 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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
January 2011Tornado (EF0)Istokpoga$5,000A tornado was reported to touch down in a rural area near U.S. Highway 98 and Airport Road. In addition, several trees and numerous branches were downed, as well as some fencing torn down in several lots in the northwest section of the Spring Lakes subdivision.
September 2022Funnel CloudIstokpoga-EM relayed social media video of funnel cloud taken from near the Sebring Raceway.

Every storm recorded in Highlands 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
De Soto City3.5 miles14
Kuhlman3.7 miles14
Lorida5.6 miles14
Sylvan Shores6.6 miles14
Sebring7.4 miles14
Marland7.8 miles13
Highlands Park Estates7.9 miles14
Wild Island8.3 miles13

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.

Wikidata item Q122555861The 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 294813. 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.