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Okahumpka, Florida

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Howey-in-the-Hills-Okahumpka census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34762. The Survey maps it on the Center Hill quadrangle. 240 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 85 feet above sea level.

Okahumpka 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 Okahumpka, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Okahumpka, surveyed 1955

On record in Okahumpka

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 2 records

Population over time

3 figures

Okahumpka fell from 251 to 240 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
2000251
2010267+16 (+6%)
2020240-27 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

113 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Okahumpka between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,027 acres in total. 17 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 maintenance30
Natural17
Debris and open burning17
Equipment and vehicle use16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
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
7 September 1994Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCLEARWATER (35)
3 August 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBLUFF (35)
27 August 1999Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 July 2000Natural2.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 July 1999Natural3.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 July 1999Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 July 1999Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Okahumpka: 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand, Kaolin. 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
Florida China Clay Company PitKaolinPast Producer
Florida Rock Industries, Inc. - Turnpike Sand MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Okahumpka in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2020Tornado (EF0)Okahumpka1 hurtNational Weather Service staff conducted a damage survey and confirmed an EF-0 tornado occurred in Okahumpka on January 4, 2020. Peak winds were estimated between 65 and 75 mph, along a discontinuous path of 2.38 miles, with a maximum width of 175 yards. The tornado generally moved northeast beginning just west of the Florida Turnpike near mile marker 295, crossing mostly wooded areas, Debbie Road, and the western side of the Holiday RV Village before dissipating. Damage estimates indicate significant roof damage to 3 to 5 mobile homes, one large oak tree was toppled, and numerous large branches of weak/old trees were downed. One resident received minor injuries when a tree branch came through the roof of his manufactured home at the RV Village. The individual self-transported to the hospital for treatment of a minor cut to his head.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindOkahumpka$14,000Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and billboards and overturned a tractor trailer on the Florida Turnpike.
June 2017LightningOkahumpka$5,000Lake County Emergency Services reported that several large branches fell onto a mobile home in Leesburg after lightning from a nearby thunderstorm struck a tree next to the mobile home. A 68-year-old woman was injured when the branches fell on her as she was sleeping in her bedroom. The woman managed to get outside of her mobile home where neighbors called 911. The woman was transported to a local hospital with minor injuries and later released.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindOkahumpka$1,000Local law enforcement reported a tree blown down on Highway 33.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindOkahumpka$1,000Trees were blown down across US Highway 33.
March 2021HailOkahumpka-A trained spotter reported hail up to quarter size.
March 2021Thunderstorm WindOkahumpka-A trained spotter reported numerous 1 inch and larger tree branches downed throughout The Plantation at Leesburg community.
March 2019HailOkahumpka-A trained weather spotter observed quarter sized hail at the Hawthorne community in Leesburg.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindOkahumpka-The Florida Division of Emergency Management relayed reports of 10 homes on Great Egret Drive in Okahumpka that received damage to shingles, siding, and fences.
July 2017HailOkahumpka-A trained spotter reported was driving along US Highway 27 just south of Leesburg when he reported nickel sized hail. The spotter also reported that hail was becoming larger than nickel sized when he decided to turn around.

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
Okahumpka (historical)1.3 miles14
Hawthorne1.6 miles12
Cisky Park4.1 miles12
Pumpkin Center4.1 miles11
Leesburg4.5 miles14
Yalaha4.7 miles11
Sunnyside4.8 miles12
Eldorado5.0 miles12

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 OkahumpkaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2542520The 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 288068. 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.