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Lutz, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Tampa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33549. The Survey maps it on the Lutz quadrangle. 23,707 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 69 feet above sea level.

Lutz within Hillsborough 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 Lutz, surveyed 1999
Topographic sheet of Lutz, surveyed 1943

Compare 1943 against another survey:

On record in Lutz

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Lutz grew from 19,344 to 23,707 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
201019,344
202023,707+4,363 (+23%)

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

79 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Lutz between 1992 and 2018, burning about 669 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 8 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
Railroad operations and maintenance18
Natural15
Equipment and vehicle use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Arson/incendiarism8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Debris and open burning2
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
18 September 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 1993Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 August 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution11 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSUNLAKE (51)
2 August 1998Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 August 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service51/INDIAN HEAD FIRE/0875
4 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBURNISTON DRIVE (29)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hillsborough 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 Lutz: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand. 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
Centex Real Estate Corp. - Carrolton Lakes MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Hillsborough County

Storms near this place

17 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lutz in 17 storm reports between 1993 and 2010: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 lightning, 1 flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 2001LightningLutz1 hurtAn adult male was struck and injured by the sideflash of lightning that struck a pole he was standing near along the 17000 block of Singing Wood Place east of State Road 597 (Dale Mabry) in Lutz.
August 2000LightningLutz1 hurtThe Hillsborough County Emergency Management reported that a female in her 30's was struck and injured by lightning on the 17000 block of Bridal Path Court in Lutz.
March 1993Thunderstorm WindLutz$500,000Strong downburst winds destroyed a house.
July 2006LightningLutz$200,000A lightning strike caused a fire that burned down a barn near the intersection of Indiana Avenue and Tarpon Springs Road. No animals were injured.
July 1998LightningLutz$100,000Lightning struck and caused $100,000 dollars worth of fire damage to an apartment complex on the 14000 block of Turtle Creek Circle in Lutz.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindLutz$52,500Nine power poles were downed and six more were damaged along a half-mile stretch on Dale Mabry Highway near Geraci Road. There was no damage to trees or buildings along the area. The area had been wet from rain over the previous ten days and this may have led to the poles being pushed over in the estimated 50mph winds.
August 2000FloodLutz$50,000Heavy rainfall of the three to five inches in less than two hours caused localized urban flooding from Odessa in Pasco county southeast to Temple Terrace in Hillsborough county. A few vehicles incurred water damage from the urban flooding at low-lying intersections, mainly in northern Hillsborough county.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindLutz$2,000Skywarn Spotters reported thunderstorm winds downed two large trees and snapped off the tops of a few others along U.S. Highway 92 (Dale Mabry) in Lutz.
March 2010Heavy RainLutz-A mesonet station 2 miles northeast of Lutz reported 5.57 inches of rain throughout the event causing minor street flooding. In addition, another mesonet station 4 miles west-northwest of Lutz reported 5.52 inches of rain. The gauge at the Hillsborough River State Park near Thonotosassa reported 3.28 inches of rain.
June 2009HailLutz-Several reports of nickel sized hail across Lutz.
June 2009HailLutz-Quarter sized hail was reported in the city of Lutz.
June 2009HailLutz-Quarter sized hail was reported near the intersection of U.S. Highway 41 and Sunset Lane.
June 2008HailLutz-A visiting SKYWARN spotter from Iowa reported penny sized hail near the Dale Mabry Highway.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindLutz-Numerous trees down.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindLutz-Gusty winds knocked down trees which took down power lines along Fern Road.
May 2003HailLutz-A trained spotter reported two inch hail while in his car at the intersection of Dale Mabry and Fern Road.
May 2003HailLutz-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hillsborough 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
Deer Park0.8 miles17
Bruing1.1 miles17
Cheval2.8 miles19
Chapman2.9 miles18
Northdale4.6 miles17
Lake Magdalene5.3 miles18
Nowatney5.4 miles18
North Tampa Heights5.9 miles18

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 LutzAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1963340The 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 286224. 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.

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.