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Odessa, Florida

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the New Port Richey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33556. The Survey maps it on the Odessa quadrangle. 8,080 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 56 feet above sea level.

Odessa within Pasco County

Then and now

1943 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 35 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Odessa, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Odessa, surveyed 1943

Compare 1943 against another survey:

Population over time

3 figures

Odessa grew from 3,173 to 8,080 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
20003,173
20107,267+4,094 (+129%)
20208,080+813 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

150 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Odessa between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,867 acres in total. 81 started naturally. 13 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
Natural81
Equipment and vehicle use14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism13
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Debris and open burning9
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Smoking1
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
26 September 2015Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceIMPACT (29)
24 September 2010Natural10 acresFlorida Forest Service51/SANDY BRANCH/0994
18 September 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 1993Natural44 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 1993Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2007Natural253 acresFlorida Forest Service51/PUMP HOUSE FIRE/0948
7 August 2001Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 August 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service51/SKYVIEW FIRE/0850

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pasco County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Odessa: 2 producers, 2 unknowns. 2 still produce. 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.

Every working recorded in Pasco County

Storms near this place

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Odessa in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. 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
August 2021Tornado (EF0)Odessa$10,000Multiple pictures and videos shared by public via social and broadcast media of brief tornado between Odessa and New Port Richey. A pool enclosure attached to a home near Odessa was collapsed by the tornado.
June 2004LightningOdessa$8,000Lightning struck a barn and killed four horses inside at the Avalon Riding Academy.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindOdessa$5,000The Pasco County Emergency Management reported that thunderstorm winds snapped several large branches and downed power lines at and near the intersection of Wellfield and Wildwood in the Sierra Pines subdivision five miles east of Odessa.
February 2008HailOdessa-The public reported nickel sized hail in Odessa.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindOdessa-The gust was measured at a home weather station.
May 1999HailOdessa-The public reported dime sized hail through St Petersburg, Florida television station WTSP.
May 1995HailOdessa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pasco 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
Gulf Pine1.4 miles19
Seven Springs4.1 miles17
Trinity4.9 miles17
Elfers7.1 miles17
Land O' Lakes7.3 miles17
Forest Hills7.5 miles17
New Port Richey7.6 miles17
Drexel7.8 miles17

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 OdessaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2149988The 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 288053. 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.