Kathleen, Florida
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Lakeland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33810. The Survey maps it on the Plant City East quadrangle. 6,486 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 144 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1944 to 1994The 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.


Compare 1944 against another survey:
Population over time
3 figuresKathleen grew from 3,280 to 6,486 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 3,280 | |
| 2010 | 6,332 | +3,052 (+93%) |
| 2020 | 6,486 | +154 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 16 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.
- 1944 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:24000
- 1944 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:31680
- 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
- 1975 USGS Plant City East quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1978 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Plant City East quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
155 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 155 fires within 5 miles of Kathleen between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,157 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 11 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 maintenance | 51 |
| Debris and open burning | 32 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 22 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 September 1997 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 13 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 53 JINX |
| 8 August 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 28 August 1996 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 9 June 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 6.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 28 June 2007 | Natural | 8.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 800 |
| 23 June 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 18 June 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | HOURGLASS (53) |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Kathleen: 1 producer, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kathleen Mine | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Alvin Futch Co. - Grimmer Pit | Sand | Producer | ||
| Bishop & Buttrey, Inc. - Wilder Pit #23 Mine | Sand | Unknown |
Storms near this place
4 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kathleen in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2009: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kathleen | $15,000 | A skylight was ripped off of a roof and a fence was blown over along Manor Loop. A shed was also destroyed and a carport and a sun roof were ripped off of mobile homes along Indian Ridge Trail. |
| February 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kathleen | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed several power poles along County Road 35A in Kathleen. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Kathleen | - | Nickel sized hail was reported in Kathleen. |
| September 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Kathleen | - | A tornado was reported by the public near Kathleen. The location and time of this tornado were based on radar. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Galloway | 1.9 miles | 16 | |
| Gibsonia | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Griffin | 2.9 miles | 13 | |
| Hitchapukasse (historical) | 3.2 miles | 15 | |
| Socrum | 3.3 miles | 15 | |
| Providence | 3.5 miles | 12 | |
| Fox Town | 5.6 miles | 12 | |
| Winston | 6.2 miles | 16 |
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 Kathleen | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q602145 | 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 285019. 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.









