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Lemon Grove, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Zolfo Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33890. The Survey maps it on the Griffins Corner quadrangle. 637 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 125 feet above sea level.

Lemon Grove within Hardee County

Then and now

1956 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 32 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lemon Grove, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Lemon Grove, surveyed 1956

Population over time

2 figures

Lemon Grove fell from 657 to 637 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
2010657
2020637-20 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

103 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Lemon Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,040 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 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 burning28
Railroad operations and maintenance27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use9
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural4
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
23 August 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 July 2002Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 June 2004Natural50 acresFlorida Forest ServiceFATHERS DAY FIRE
2 June 2011Natural20 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMAUDE ROAD (25)
15 June 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 June 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2004-15-0287
1 June 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 May 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMEL BRYAN (25)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardee County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lemon Grove: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Water, Free, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium. 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
Mobil AreaPhosphorus-Phosphates, Water, Free, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, UraniumProspect

Every working recorded in Hardee 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
Griffins Corner3.1 miles15
Wauchula7.1 miles15
Coker7.3 miles15
Wauchula Hills7.6 miles15
Zolfo Springs7.7 miles13
Torrey8.6 miles15
Bowling Green9.5 miles15
Moffitt9.5 miles13

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 Lemon GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q9021309The 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 294832. 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.