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Limestone, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Wauchula census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33865. The Survey maps it on the Limestone quadrangle. 157 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 59 feet above sea level.

Limestone 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 Limestone, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Limestone, surveyed 1956

Population over time

2 figures

Limestone grew from 132 to 157 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
2010132
2020157+25 (+19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

61 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Limestone between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,284 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 1 was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Equipment and vehicle use11
Debris and open burning9
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1
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
5 August 2000Natural25 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 August 1993Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 August 1993Natural80 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service14-CR-661 CO. LINE FIRE-0557
5 June 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 June 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMURPHY ROAD (25)
15 June 2011Natural205 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLIMESTONE 663 (40)
15 June 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardee County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Limestone: 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Magnesite, Iron, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Aluminum, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
Acrefoot JohnsonPhosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Fluorine-FluoriteProspectSurface
Freeport Area Small OwnershipsPhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Fluorine-FluoriteProspectSurface
Horse Creek, D.E. CarltonPhosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Magnesite, Iron, Aluminum, Fluorine-FluoriteProspect1968

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
Kinsey1.8 miles14
Bridges3.0 miles13
Lily3.5 miles14
Gardner5.3 miles13
Buchanan6.5 miles13
Ona8.1 miles13
Oak Grove8.2 miles13
Moffitt8.2 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 LimestoneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5976504The 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 285531. 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.