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Kissimmee, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Kissimmee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34741. It stands on Mill Slough. The Survey maps it on the Kissimmee quadrangle. 79,226 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 49 feet above sea level.

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Kissimmee within Osceola County

Then and now

1953 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 26 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kissimmee, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Kissimmee, surveyed 1953

On record in Kissimmee

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 6 records

Population over time

2 figures

Kissimmee grew from 59,682 to 79,226 between 2010 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
201059,682
202079,226+19,544 (+33%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

66 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Kissimmee between 1992 and 2017, burning about 825 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 14 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 maintenance17
Arson/incendiarism14
Natural9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony3

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
25 August 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 June 2000Natural30 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 June 2017Natural200 acresFlorida Forest Service3 MILE CREEK (05)
22 June 1997Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 June 1997Natural15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 June 1993Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 June 2001Equipment and vehicle use25 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 June 1995Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Osceola County

Storms near this place

60 of 69 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kissimmee in 69 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 30 hail, 21 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 4 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
June 1997LightningKissimmee1 hurtAn Osceola County deputy sheriff was struck and injured by lightning while standing on a sidewalk.
July 2009FloodKissimmee$4,000,000A small area of very heavy rain produced 4-5 inches in less than 2 hours which resulted in a rapid accumulation of deep water. One hundred and nine homes were flooded, with 16 receiving major damage. The most significant flooding affected about a 20 square block area. The flooding of the homes was likely due in part to the lack of a modern storm water management system and some storm drain blockages.
July 1997Tornado (F1)Kissimmee$200,000A small tornado touched down in Kissimmee at the north end of West Lake Toho. The tornado moved east severly damaging 5 homes and producing minor damage to 5 others.
August 2003Flash FloodKissimmee$120,000A chronic slow rise in ditch and pond water levels over the previous weeks culminated with about four inches of rain and the flooding of 35 homes in the Kissimmee and St. Cloud communities.
May 2002Flash FloodKissimmee$100,000As heavy rain continued over Osceola County, many roads became unpassable and a few homes were flooded in Kissimmee.
January 1998Flash FloodKissimmee$100,000Heavy rains from December through January produced flooding in low lying area of northern Osceola County. Eight mobile homes in a park received minor flooding. Most of the park was evacuated.
March 1998Tornado (F0)Kissimmee$70,000A category F2 tornado touched down briefly in the western part of Kissimmee producing minor damage to about 40 mobile homes. Most of the damage was to carports and awnings.
December 1997Flash FloodKissimmee$60,000Heavy rains of 6 to 11 inches in northern Osceola County flooded 30 roads and 2 homes near Kissimmee, St. Cloud and Poinciana.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindKissimmee$25,000Strong thunderstorm winds blew trees on to a mobile home, and destroyed a service station canopy.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindKissimmee$25,000Strong thunderstorm winds blew trees on to a mobile home, and destroyed a service station canopy.
July 2017Tornado (EF0)Kissimmee$20,000Numerous residents within the Buena Ventura Lakes region of Kissimmee observed a funnel cloud approach from the southwest and become a tornado as it traveled through two adjacent subdivisions for less than 0.75 miles. Eyewitnesses described swirling debris at the surface and swirling water within an adjacent lake, with a visible funnel farther aloft to the cloud base. Several single family homes sustained minor damage, consisting of several removed shingles, and damage to carports and pool screen enclosures. A large mango tree fell onto one home resulting in roof damage. The tornado path and intensity (EF-0, winds estimated at 60-70 mph) were determined after examining damage photos from Osceola County Emergency Management and the Orlando news media and interviewing several eyewitnesses. DI2, DOD1, EXP; DI2, DOD2, LB-EXP.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindKissimmee$10,000Severe thunderstorm winds toppled a tree onto a car on Beaumont Avenue in Kissimmee. Nearby, at the same time, a large tree was downed across Sunrail train tracks at the Magnolia Avenue crossing. Several minutes later, and about 5 miles to the north, another tree fell onto a home on Country Boulevard.
March 2000Thunderstorm WindKissimmee$10,000Severe thunderstorm winds blew down trees in the Kissimmee area. A car was damaged by falling trees.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindKissimmee$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down trees blocking the road on Monument Drive in Kissimmee.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindKissimmee$5,000Thunderstorm winds damaged roofs and blew trees down on buildings in Kissimmee.
February 1998HailKissimmee$5,000Dime size hail fell in Kissimmee. Minor roof damage to a house was reported.
July 1997Tornado (F0)Kissimmee$2,000A small F0 tornado touched down briefly in Kissimmee blowing down power lines and a few trees.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindKissimmee$1,000The Kissimmee Police Department reported a large tree down on Michigan Road in Kissimmee.
October 2024Flash FloodKissimmee-Osceola County Emergency Management reported numerous flooded roadways, some impassable, due to heavy rainfall ahead of and during Hurricane Milton. The outer rainbands of Milton produced 3 to 6 inches of rain over a large portion of the county in the early to mid afternoon hours, before the center of the system brought a secondary bout of rainfall that produced an additional 4 to 6 inches of rain to Kissimmee, Celebration, and Poinciana. Here, the highest rainfall totals were realized with radar estimates exceeding 10 inches for the event.
July 2017Funnel CloudKissimmee-Numerous weather spotters and citizens observed a funnel cloud in Kissimmee. The funnel cloud crossed above the Florida Turnpike and then impacted the Buena Ventura Lakes area as a tornado.
May 2011HailKissimmee-Quarter sized hail was reported by the public in the Mill Run subdivision.
April 2009HailKissimmee-Trained Spotter reported nickel sized hail.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindKissimmee-Kissimmee Police Department reported a large tree down in downtown Kissimmee.
June 2007Heavy RainKissimmee-Two to four inches of rain fell over northern and western Osceola County closing some roads in Saint Cloud.
May 2005HailKissimmee-Hail fell near Lake Hatchineha
May 2005HailKissimmee-Hail fell on the Osceola Polk county border.
May 2005HailKissimmee-Hail fell in the Poinciana area.
July 2005Funnel CloudKissimmee-Law enforcement officers and the general public reported a funnel cloud over kissimmee.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindKissimmee-Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree in Kissimmee.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindKissimmee-Thunderstorm winds uprooted trees in Kissimmee.
August 2003Flash FloodKissimmee-Near 3 inches of rain produced widespread street flooding in Kissimmee.
May 2002FloodKissimmee-Street flooding began as persistent heavy rain fell in the Kissimmee area.
July 2002FloodKissimmee-Heavy thunderstorm rains produced widespread street flooding in Kissimmee.
August 2001HailKissimmee-Dime size hail fell in Kissimmee. Thunderstorm winds blew a tree on to a house.
May 2000HailKissimmee-Dime size hail fell in Poinciana.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindKissimmee-Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and signs and blew shingles off of roofs in Kissimmee.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindKissimmee-Thunderstorm winds blew down trees in the Mill Run area of Kissimmee.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindKissimmee-Thunderstorm winds blew down two small trees in Kissimmee. A spotter measured a 56 MPH wind gust.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindKissimmee-A trained spotter measured wind gusts of 59 mph in Kissimmee.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindKissimmee-Thunderstorm winds damaged the roof of an apartment building and destroyed pieces of patio furniture.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindKissimmee-Thunderstorm winds blew down interstate highway road signs and blew cars off the road near Kissimmee.
May 1997HailKissimmee-Golf ball size hail was reported in Kissimmee.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindKissimmee-Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines in Kissimmee.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindKissimmee-Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines in Kissimmee.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindKissimmee-Thunderstorm winds damaged roofs on 10 homes and destroyed a porch screen room.
October 1997Thunderstorm WindKissimmee-Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines in Kissimmee.
October 1994HailKissimmee-Police reported one-inch hail.
March 2005HailKissimmee-no account filed
July 2004HailKissimmee-no account filed
July 2004HailKissimmee-no account filed
July 2003HailKissimmee-no account filed
May 2002HailKissimmee-no account filed
June 2001HailKissimmee-no account filed
June 2001HailKissimmee-no account filed
June 2001HailKissimmee-no account filed
May 1999HailKissimmee-no account filed
August 1999HailKissimmee-no account filed
May 1999HailKissimmee-no account filed
June 1999HailKissimmee-no account filed
April 1998HailKissimmee-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Osceola 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
Campbell3.5 miles13
Buenaventura Lakes4.2 miles14
Intercession City5.7 miles13
Celebration7.0 miles13
Saint Cloud7.3 miles12
Tohopikaliga (historical)7.5 miles14
Runnymede8.7 miles12
Narcoossee8.9 miles12

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 KissimmeeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q583894The 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 285145. 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.