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Masaryktown, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Brooksville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34604. The Survey maps it on the Masaryktown quadrangle. 1,077 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 62 feet above sea level.

Masaryktown within Hernando County

Then and now

1954 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 24 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Masaryktown, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Masaryktown, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Population over time

3 figures

Masaryktown grew from 920 to 1,077 between 2000 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
2000920
20101,040+120 (+13%)
20201,077+37 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

178 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Masaryktown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 834 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 26 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 maintenance51
Arson/incendiarism26
Equipment and vehicle use24
Misuse of fire by a minor24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Debris and open burning18
Natural7
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2
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
9 September 1992Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1996Smoking1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBOWMAN RD (51)
13 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresFlorida Forest Service51/PAINTER FIRE/0623
7 August 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service27/MARTHA PILE FIRE/0866
7 August 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2013Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBRAEMERE (27)
9 July 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceNAPLES (27)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hernando County

Storms near this place

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Masaryktown in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flood, 1 hail. 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
January 2011Thunderstorm WindMasaryktown$55,000A total of 18 structures incurred damage from the storms. Thirteen structures sustained minor damage, three moderate, and two major. Damage to homes occurred on Indigo Drive and Matthew Avenue in east Spring Hill, where one home had the roof removed by the wind, another home had some shingles, a satellite dish, and gutters blown off the roof, and a third home had shingle damage and the pool cage collapsed. Significant tree damage occurred along Ferry Avenue, where several large trees were uprooted or large branches snapped. In addition, a speed limit sign was snapped, and a home had a carport partially collapse and gutters partially torn off the roof. Winds were estimated at 60 to 70 mph, with possible gusts up to 80 mph.
December 2022Tornado (EF0)Masaryktown$50,000NWS survey determined that an EF-1 tornado touched down in extreme northern Pasco County south of Masaryktown then moved into Hernando County before dissipating a few miles west of Interstate 75. Primary damage was near beginning of track where a home suffered roof damage. Elsewhere, most damage consisted of snapped or uprooted trees as the tornado tracked mostly over forested area.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindMasaryktown$20,000One tree was downed onto a house, and several other trees were downed across the road on Korbus Road in Masaryktown.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindMasaryktown$20,000The Hernando County Emergency Management reported thunderstorm winds damaged a few carports and lanais, snapped several large trees and branches, and downed power lines near the intersection of Altoona Avenue and Whiteplains Street two miles west of Masaryktown.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindMasaryktown$15,000Local broadcast media shared a report of large trees down causing roof damage to a home.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindMasaryktown$15,000About 10 trees and numerous branches were downed in the Saint Ives Boulevard and East Linden Drive area. The wind also damaged fences, basketball hoops, and pool screens.
September 1999FloodMasaryktown$10,000Five to six inches of rain in less than two hours caused minor to moderate street flooding along the U.S. Highway 41 corridor from Brooksville to Masaryktown. One home incurred flood damage and localized ponding of water, up to two feet in depth, occurred in a construction zone near Powell.
December 2022Thunderstorm WindMasaryktown-Numerous trees down being reported my broadcast media.
May 2014HailMasaryktown-Pictures were posted to social media sites of hail up to the size of half dollars.
July 2007Tornado (EF0)Masaryktown-A small and short lived tornado touched down along U.S. Highway 41 just north of the Pasco County line and downed a couple of trees.

Every storm recorded in Hernando 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
Ayers1.7 miles13
Garden Grove2.9 miles13
Powell3.8 miles13
Spring Hill4.4 miles15
Willow Sink5.6 miles15
South Brooksville6.8 miles16
Wiscon6.8 miles16
Tooke Lake Junction7.2 miles16

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 MasaryktownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q356789The 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 286497. 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.