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Lacoochee, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Lacoochee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33523. The Survey maps it on the Lacoochee quadrangle. 1,124 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 72 feet above sea level.

Lacoochee within Pasco County

Then and now

1955 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 23 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lacoochee, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Lacoochee, surveyed 1955

Population over time

3 figures

Lacoochee fell from 1,345 to 1,124 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
20001,345
20101,714+369 (+27%)
20201,124-590 (-34%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

149 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of Lacoochee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,933 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 32 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
Equipment and vehicle use37
Arson/incendiarism32
Natural28
Debris and open burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceLEAH (51)
29 September 2007Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Service27/WALMART FIRE/1119
13 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 August 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service51/LITTLE EVERGLADES/0902
6 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use3.4 acresFlorida Forest Service51/TRILBY FIRE/0738
4 July 1992Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 July 2006Natural16 acresFlorida Forest Service60/PRICE ROAD FIRE/0821
28 July 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Service27/DOG FENNELL FIRE/0553

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pasco County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Lacoochee: 3 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Limestone, General, 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
Ridge Manor MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Ariana Dairy Farm, Inc. - Pedone Sand MineSandUnknown
Claire H. Clements - Master Tract MineSandUnknown
E R Jahna Industries, Inc. - Mills MineLimestone, GeneralUnknownLimestone
E.R. Jahna - Mills MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Pasco 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
Trilcoochee0.6 miles12
Moss Town0.6 miles12
Trilby1.2 miles12
Riverdale1.7 miles12
Old Henley Place4.9 miles12
Blanton5.4 miles12
Clay Sink5.6 miles12
Jessamine6.3 miles15

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 LacoocheeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2624828The 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 285199. 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.