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Medulla, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Lakeland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33811. The Survey maps it on the Mulberry quadrangle. 10,871 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 161 feet above sea level.

Medulla within Polk County

Then and now

1949 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 39 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Medulla, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Medulla, surveyed 1949

Population over time

3 figures

Medulla grew from 6,637 to 10,871 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
20006,637
20108,892+2,255 (+34%)
202010,871+1,979 (+22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

254 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 254 fires within 5 miles of Medulla between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,415 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 10 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 maintenance105
Misuse of fire by a minor37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Debris and open burning24
Equipment and vehicle use23
Recreation and ceremony18
Arson/incendiarism10
Natural9
Smoking3
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
2 September 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHAMILTON (53)
18 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSEABOARD (53)
1 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service845
5 August 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 August 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 July 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Medulla: 4 prospects, 2 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, Free, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, 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
Cristina ReservePhosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Fluorine-FluoriteProspect1935
FridovichPhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Fluorine-FluoriteProspect1936
Little Wheels, Inc. - Wellman-Lord Trust MineSandUnknown
Mulberry Limestone Drying MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Unnamed Diatomite DepositDiatomiteProspect
Debris DepositsPhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, FreeProspect1974
MulberryPhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, FreePast Producer
Poseidon #1 MinePhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer

Every working recorded in Polk 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
Tancrede0.7 miles17
Lakeland Highlands1.4 miles17
Fountain Heights2.0 miles17
Prairie Junction3.8 miles17
Fuller Heights4.3 miles17
Willow Oak4.3 miles12
Eaton Park4.5 miles13
Winston4.9 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 MedullaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2287009The 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 286674. 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.