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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.

Kathleen 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 Kathleen, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Kathleen, surveyed 1944

Compare 1944 against another survey:

Population over time

3 figures

Kathleen 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.

YearPeople Change
20003,280
20106,332+3,052 (+93%)
20206,486+154 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

155 since 1992

Regional 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 maintenance51
Debris and open burning32
Misuse of fire by a minor22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism11
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony6
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
22 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service53 JINX
8 August 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 August 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 June 2000Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 June 2007Natural8.0 acresFlorida Forest Service800
23 June 2000Equipment and vehicle use10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 June 2011Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHOURGLASS (53)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Kathleen MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Alvin Futch Co. - Grimmer PitSandProducer
Bishop & Buttrey, Inc. - Wilder Pit #23 MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2009Thunderstorm WindKathleen$15,000A 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 1998Thunderstorm WindKathleen$10,000Thunderstorm winds downed several power poles along County Road 35A in Kathleen.
June 2009HailKathleen-Nickel sized hail was reported in Kathleen.
September 2004Tornado (F0)Kathleen-A tornado was reported by the public near Kathleen. The location and time of this tornado were based on radar.

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
Galloway1.9 miles16
Gibsonia2.7 miles13
Griffin2.9 miles13
Hitchapukasse (historical)3.2 miles15
Socrum3.3 miles15
Providence3.5 miles12
Fox Town5.6 miles12
Winston6.2 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 KathleenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q602145The 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.