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Land O' Lakes, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Central Pasco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34639. The Survey maps it on the Lutz quadrangle. 35,929 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 75 feet above sea level.

Land O' Lakes within Pasco County

Then and now

1943 to 1999

The same ground, surveyed 56 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Land O' Lakes, surveyed 1999
Topographic sheet of Land O' Lakes, surveyed 1943

Compare 1943 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Land O' Lakes grew from 31,996 to 35,929 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
201031,996
202035,929+3,933 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Land O' Lakes between 1992 and 2017, burning about 1,500 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 15 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
Natural29
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use13
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
22 September 1992Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 August 2014Natural4.8 acresFlorida Forest ServiceRIVA RIDGE (51)
22 August 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution11 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSUNLAKE (51)
10 August 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service51/INDIAN HEAD FIRE/0875
4 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 July 2011Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTHE BEXLEY FIRE (51)
9 June 2008Natural17 acresFlorida Forest Service51/WELL FIELD/0589

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pasco County

Storms near this place

34 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Land O' Lakes in 34 storm reports between 1993 and 2019: 14 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 5 tornado, 3 lightning. 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
December 2007Tornado (EF1)Land O Lakes$1,000,000A housing annex worth $750,000 at the county jail was destroyed. The 125 female inmates living in the annex were evacuated before it was destroyed, resulting in zero injuries. There was also roof damage to a fire station, four vehicles were flipped and there were numerous trees and power poles downed.
August 2015LightningLand O Lakes$350,000A lightning strike hit a house in Land O' Lakes and the subsequent fire caused the house to be a total loss. The fire caused the second story to collapse onto the first floor. The home was a vacation property and was vacant at the time so no injuries were reported.
November 2018Tornado (EF1)Land O Lakes$100,000A brief tornado occurred near Land O Lakes which condemned two homes due to significant roof damage. In addition, there were numerous downed trees in the vicinity.
September 1998Flash FloodLand O Lakes$100,000A protective berm surrounding a rain saturated pond failed and flooded 20 homes in the Sable Ridge subdivision in Land O' Lakes.
May 2005Tornado (F1)Land O Lakes$80,000A small northward moving thunderstorm collided with an eastward moving squall line and produced a brief F1 tornado that crossed the intersection of U.S. Highway 41 and State Road 54. A fast food restaurant lost a plate glass window and a lumber yard had wood thrown about and roof damage, a strip mall had roof damage, and eighteen homes had minor damage as large limbs from oak trees fell on the homes.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindLand O Lakes$50,000A local utility company reported that thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines in and around Land O Lakes in Pasco county. Nearly 2,000 homes were without power for approximately one hour.
March 2001Thunderstorm WindLand O Lakes$25,000An off-duty NWS meteorologist reported numerous downed trees, large branches and power lines by thunderstorm winds along U.S. Highway 41 in Land O' Lakes of central Pasco county.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindLand O Lakes$20,000Emergency Management reported roof damage to three units and numerous tree limbs down.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindLand O Lakes$15,000Thunderstorm winds downed several power lines from Land O' Lakes to Lacoochee in Pasco County.
February 1998Thunderstorm WindLand O Lakes$10,000Thunderstorm winds peeled the roof off a home and downed several large trees along U.S. Highway 41 and Decision Road.
July 1998FloodLand O Lakes$10,000no account filed
May 2019Thunderstorm WindLand O Lakes$5,000Pasco County Emergency Management reported numerous large tree limbs down across Land O' Lakes.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindLand O Lakes$5,000The public reported, through WTSP-TV in St. Petersburg, that thunderstorm winds removed part of the roof of a mobile home on the 10000 block of Eherns Cutoff Road in Land O Lakes.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindLand O Lakes$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees in Land O' Lakes.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindLand O Lakes$2,000Thunderstorm winds of up to 50 mph caused damage to a mobile home and aluminum carport in Land O Lakes of central Pasco county.
December 2012LightningLand O Lakes$1,000Lightning struck a house in Land O Lakes, damaging the fuse box, as well as shattering a couple of windows. Damage was estimated as $1000 for 2 new windows and a new fuse box.
May 2014HailLand O Lakes-Nickel sized hail was reported in Land O' Lakes.
March 2011Thunderstorm WindLand O Lakes-Thunderstorm winds damaged carports and pool cages in the Lake Padgett Estates Neighborhood of Land O Lakes.
June 2010HailLand O Lakes-Quarter sized hail was reported near U.S. Highway 41 near Land O' Lakes.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindLand O Lakes-Numerous trees were downed by thunderstorm winds around the Lake Thomas area.
June 2007HailLand O Lakes-The public reported penny size hail in the Thomas Lake area.
July 2006Tornado (F0)Land O Lakes-Emergency Management relayed a report from the public of a brief tornado touch down in an open field with no damage.
August 2006HailLand O Lakes-Nickel size hail was reported in the Meadow Pointe subdivision near the intersection of Meadow Pointe Blvd. and Bruce B. Downs Blvd.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindLand O Lakes-Emergency management reported multiple trees downed by thunderstorm wind gusts. Two of the trees blocked Ehren Cutoff Road.
September 2004Heavy RainLand O Lakes-A National Weather Service observer three miles north of Lutz recorded 8.71".
March 2003Thunderstorm WindLand O Lakes-Trees downed power lines and knocked out power to 1,800 homes.
March 2003Funnel CloudLand O Lakes-A large rotating funnel cloud was reported by the public. Emergency management looked for signs it touched down but could not find any wind damage.
June 2001HailLand O Lakes-Nickel sized hail was reported in Land O Lakes by the public through WTSP-TV of St. Petersburg.
September 1998Tornado (F0)Land O Lakes-A short lived tornado, associated with an outer band of Hurricane Earl, touched down over rural semi wooded countryside, four miles west of Land O' Lakes and one mile north of State Road 54, with no apparent damage.
June 1998LightningLand O Lakes-Lightning ignited a wildfire and burned nearly a thousand acres of brush.
June 1998HailLand O Lakes-Quarter sized hail was observed in Land O' Lakes.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindLand o Lakes-Golf ball-size hail and an uprooted tree reported by a TV station.
March 1993HailLand O'Lakes-Dime-size hail fell.
March 2003HailLand O Lakes-no account filed

Every storm 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
Dupree Gardens1.4 miles17
Drexel1.7 miles17
Ehren3.3 miles14
Wesley Chapel7.0 miles16
Odessa7.3 miles19
Gulf Pine7.7 miles19
Fivay Junction7.9 miles14
Greenfield9.6 miles14

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 Land O' LakesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2375799The 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 294219. 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.