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Lorida, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Sebring census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33857. The Survey maps it on the Lorida quadrangle.

Lorida within Highlands County

Then and now

1952 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 36 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lorida, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Lorida, surveyed 1952

Compare 1952 against another survey:

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

159 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 159 fires within 5 miles of Lorida between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,474 acres in total. 11 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 burning42
Railroad operations and maintenance31
Equipment and vehicle use29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Natural11
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking4

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
19 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Service1164-HI-WILDFIRE
31 August 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceBLUFF HAMMOCK (28)
3 August 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceUPLAND (28)
27 August 1994Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceTHUNDER (28)
14 August 2005Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHI-ELLIOTT FIRE-1068
5 July 2020Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWHITE OAK (28)
4 July 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceVARSITY (28)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Highlands County

Storms near this place

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lorida in 11 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindLorida$37,500Five powerpoles were snapped along Cowhouse Road south of US Highway 98.
June 1999LightningLorida$18,000Lightning struck and killed 12 head of cattle at a dairy farm in Lorida.
January 1999Tornado (F0)Lorida$10,000A short-lived tornado touched down along U.S. Highway 98 in Lorida and caused minor damage before it lifted and dissipated. Tornado damage was limited to a few snapped trees, a toppled basketball pole, a water pump pulled from the ground and several uprooted small bushes.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindLorida$10,000A Skywarn Spotter estimated a 70 mph wind gust that downed several large trees near Lorida.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindLorida$1,000Thunderstorm winds, estimated at 50 mph, severely damaged a small shed and caused minor damage to an awning in Lorida.
March 2022Tornado (EF1)Lorida-Severel power poles snapped just northwest of Arbuckel Creek RD and Highway 98 due to a brief tornado.
August 2012Heavy RainLorida-Heavy rain from Tropical Storm Isaac dumped up to 6 inches of rain and closed a small part of U.S. Highway 98 between Cowhouse Road and County Road 621. Arbuckle creek overflowed its banks and filled the drainage ditches along side of U.S. 98 and put a few inches of water on the road.
May 1999HailLorida-A Skywarn Spotter and Highlands County Emergency Management reported that quarter sized hail covered the ground over an inch deep with drifts as high as ten inches near U.S. Highway 98 in Lorida.
May 1999HailLorida-A Skywarn Spotter reported dime sized hail in Lorida.
August 1993HailLorida-Dime- to quarter-size hail fell at Lorida and Lake Istokpoga.
May 2002HailLorida-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Highlands 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
Plains4.4 miles13
Wild Island5.5 miles13
Istokpoga5.6 miles14
Marland7.2 miles13
De Soto City8.0 miles14
Sunvale9.2 miles14
Kuhlman9.2 miles14
Cornwell9.4 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 LoridaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6681173The 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 294839. 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.