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Lee, Florida

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Madison census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32059. It stands on Norton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lee quadrangle. 375 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 89 feet above sea level.

Lee within Madison County

Then and now

1954 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 25 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lee, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Lee, surveyed 1954

Population over time

2 figures

Lee grew from 352 to 375 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
2010352
2020375+23 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

236 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 236 fires within 5 miles of Lee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 866 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning80
Equipment and vehicle use48
Railroad operations and maintenance35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Recreation and ceremony11
Natural8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Smoking7
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Fireworks2
Other causes1

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 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service40-APACHEE-#0210
29 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceDALE LESLEY (40)
24 September 2012Debris and open burning1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSTUMP FIRE (40)
22 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceGOOSE BERRY (40)
20 September 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceATKINSON FIRE #294
16 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service40-POTATO PATCH-#0211

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

46 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lee in 46 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 34 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 5 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death. 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
April 2009FloodLee1 killedAn elderly man drowned outside his home near the Blue Springs boat landing on the Withlacoochee River.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindLee$75,000Straight-line winds ripped tin roofs off 13 chicken houses and blew over a feed tank. A roof was blown off a barn and debris was strewn across SR 255.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindLee$20,000A fallen tree damaged a vehicle along Old Logging Trail.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindLee$5,000Multiple trees were blown down along County Road 255 just south of Lee. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindLee$3,000Trees and power lines were blown down south of Lee.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindLee$3,000Trees and power lines were blown down near Highway 255 and Gladioli Road.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindLee$3,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindLee$3,000Trees were blown down on River Road south of I-10 with power lines also down.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindLee$3,000Trees were blown down on County Road 53. Monetary damage was estimated.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindLee$2,000Wind damage from flying debris resulted in a power outage.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindLee$2,000Wind damage from flying debris resulted in a power outage.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindLee$2,000A few trees were blown down near Lee. Monetary damage was estimated.
February 2015Thunderstorm WindLee$1,000A tree was blown down on Highway 90 in the eastern part of the county.
November 2014Thunderstorm WindLee$1,000Numerous trees were blown down on Bisbee Loop.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindLee$1,000A power line was blown down near Henderson Farm. Monetary damage was estimated.
March 2007Thunderstorm WindLee$500The Madison County EMA reported some trees down just east of Lee.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindLee$500A few downed trees reported by WCTV Tallahassee.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindLee$500A Florida DOT official reported a few trees down.
June 1999HailLee$500Hailstorm destroyed 20-acre tobacco crop at a farm on Midway Church Rd. A Lee resident's windshield was shattered by golfball size hail.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindLee-The Florida Highway Patrol website reported a tree blocking the exit at the I-10 rest area at mile marker 264.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindLee-A tree was blown down onto power lines on County Road 141.
April 2024Flash FloodLee-Flooding was reported along NE Clover Road.
April 2024Flash FloodLee-Water was across River Road south of Donaldson Road.
August 2024Flash FloodLee-Water surrounded a barn in the Lee area according to video posted on social media.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindLee-Tree damage was reported on Highway 6.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindLee-Trees were blown down and blocked Highway 90.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindLee-Trees were blown down on the 8000 block of Hickory Grove Rd.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindLee-A tree was blown down.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindLee-A tree was blown down on NE Lantana Street.
June 2020Flash FloodLee-NE Gooseberry dirt road was washed out.
June 2020Flash FloodLee-The Florida Highway Patrol reported that I-10 eastbound was closed from Mile Marker 262 to Mile Marker 273 due to flooding.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindLee-Trees were blown down in Lee.
February 2017Thunderstorm WindLee-A tree was blown down onto I-10 near Lee.
February 2016Thunderstorm WindLee-A tree was blown down on I-10 near mile marker 265.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindLee-Two tree were blown down near Old Blue Springs Road and Rutherford Road.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindLee-A tree was blown down onto County Highway 255 near I-10.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindLee-A tree was blown down near County Road 255 and County Road 53.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindLee-Ten to fifteen trees were blown down just off of I-10 in eastern Madison county.
March 2009Thunderstorm WindLee-A few large trees were downed across Interstate 10 near mile marker 245.
March 2009Tornado (EF1)Lee-Numerous large pine trees were down in a narrow convergent path.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindLee-Several trees were down across a road west of Lee.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindLee-Several large trees were snapped by straight line winds along U.S Highway 90 just northwest of Lee.
May 2006HailLee-A SKYWARN storm spotter reported penny size hail.
March 2005HailLee-Golfball size hail reported by the Madison County EMA.
April 2023HailLee-no account filed
April 2011HailLee-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Madison6.9 miles8
Hopewell8.1 miles8
Hanson9.8 miles9
Pinetta12.3 miles9
Cherry Lake13.1 miles8
Leland13.2 miles9
Etotulga (historical)14.1 miles9
Hamburg15.7 miles8

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 LeeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1992762The 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 285424. 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.