Ona, Florida
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Wauchula census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33865. The Survey maps it on the Ona quadrangle. 199 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 89 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1956 to 1988The same ground, surveyed 32 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Population over time
2 figuresOna fell from 314 to 199 between 2010 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 314 | |
| 2020 | 199 | -115 (-37%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1956 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Ona quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1978 USGS Arcadia quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
64 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Ona between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,844 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 July 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 16 July 2003 | Natural | 25 acres | Florida Forest Service | 2003-15-1059 |
| 6 June 2002 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 5 June 1996 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 3 June 2008 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 25-LATE NIGHT FIRE-0269 |
| 11 June 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 20 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 9 May 2012 | Other causes | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | BILL WOOD RD (25) |
| 6 May 2008 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 25-CEMETARY FIRE-0185 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Ona: 5 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Magnesite, Iron, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Fluorine-Fluorite, Aluminum, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, Free, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farmland Hardee Mine | Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite | Prospect | 1955 | |
| Farmland/Ona Area-Small Ownership | Phosphorus-Phosphates, Fluorine-Fluorite, Aluminum, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, Free | Prospect | 1965 | |
| Gardinier South Hardee Deposit | Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Iron, Aluminum, Magnesite, Fluorine-Fluorite | Prospect | 1974 | |
| Mississippi Chemical Corp - Hardee | Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Magnesite, Iron, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite | Prospect | 1967 | |
| Olliff Option | Phosphorus-Phosphates, Iron, Uranium, Magnesite, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite | Prospect | Chemical Sediment, Marine |
Storms near this place
8 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ona in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 3 flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1997 | Flood | Ona | $30,000 | Heavy rainfall of four to six inches caused localized flooding of roads and low-lying areas across mainly western portions of Hardee county. |
| March 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ona | $15,000 | Hardee County Emergency Management forwarded pictures of numerous large tree branches snapped and fences knocked down near Wauchula. A trampoline was also blown by the wind into a pickup truck, knocking out a side window. |
| July 2021 | Flood | Ona | $10,000 | Florida Highway Patrol reported SR 64 closed in Ona near railroad tracks due to water covering railroad crossing. |
| September 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ona | $1,000 | The Peace River Electric Coop reported thunderstorm winds downed a couple of large trees and power lines near Ona. |
| July 2021 | Flood | Ona | - | Emergency Management reported water covering roadway along SR-64 near Hickory Creek east of Ona. |
| January 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Ona | - | A tornado was reported in rural Hardee County. No damage was reported. The time was estimated off of radar. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ona | - | The wind gust was measured at the Ona FAWN station. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Ona | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vandolah | 2.3 miles | 14 | |
| Oak Grove | 2.5 miles | 13 | |
| Bridges | 5.1 miles | 13 | |
| Zolfo Springs | 6.6 miles | 13 | |
| Moffitt | 6.7 miles | 13 | |
| Wauchula | 7.3 miles | 15 | |
| Fort Green Springs | 7.6 miles | 14 | |
| Coker | 8.0 miles | 15 |
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 Ona | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6050731 | The 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 288156. 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.





