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Minneola, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Clermont census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34715. The Survey maps it on the Clermont East quadrangle. 13,843 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 98 feet above sea level.

Minneola within Lake County

Then and now

1955 to 1979

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 Minneola, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Minneola, surveyed 1955

Population over time

3 figures

Minneola grew from 5,435 to 13,843 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
20005,435
20109,403+3,968 (+73%)
202013,843+4,440 (+47%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

185 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 185 fires within 5 miles of Minneola between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,106 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 12 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 maintenance44
Equipment and vehicle use35
Natural20
Debris and open burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Smoking15
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Arson/incendiarism12
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Fireworks1
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
20 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 1996Debris and open burning42 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 August 1999Natural30 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 August 1993Natural15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 August 1993Natural15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 August 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 July 2001Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 July 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Minneola: 7 producers, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Highway PitClayProducer
Clermont MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Clermont West MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
E.R. Jahna Industries - Clermont MineSandProducer
E.R. Jahna Industries - Clermont West MineSandProducer
Florida Crushed Stone - Tulley MineSandProducer
Florida Crushed Stone Co. - Pine Needle MineSandProducer
Tarmac Amercia, Inc. - Center Sand MineSandUnknown
Tarmac-Florida Silver Sand MineSandProducer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Minneola in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2014: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2014Thunderstorm WindMinneola$2,000Strong outflow winds associated with thunderstorms a few miles to the west and south of Ferndale caused a giant oak tree to topple onto a home. The tree fell on the garage, and the rest of the home was not damaged.
August 2001HailMinneola-no account filed
April 2000HailMinneola-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
Mohawk0.9 miles13
Skytop1.7 miles13
Clermont2.2 miles11
Reavills Corner2.9 miles13
Waits Junction3.0 miles13
Montverde Junction3.5 miles13
Roan3.7 miles13
Castle Hill3.8 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 MinneolaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2086666The 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 286962. 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.