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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.

Ona within Hardee County

Then and now

1956 to 1988

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Ona, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Ona, surveyed 1956

Population over time

2 figures

Ona 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.

YearPeople Change
2010314
2020199-115 (-37%)

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

64 since 1992

Regional 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 burning15
Railroad operations and maintenance14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1

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
28 July 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 July 2003Natural25 acresFlorida Forest Service2003-15-1059
6 June 2002Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 June 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 June 2008Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Service25-LATE NIGHT FIRE-0269
11 June 2000Railroad operations and maintenance20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 May 2012Other causes2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBILL WOOD RD (25)
6 May 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresFlorida Forest Service25-CEMETARY FIRE-0185

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardee County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Farmland Hardee MinePhosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Fluorine-FluoriteProspect1955
Farmland/Ona Area-Small OwnershipPhosphorus-Phosphates, Fluorine-Fluorite, Aluminum, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, FreeProspect1965
Gardinier South Hardee DepositPhosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Iron, Aluminum, Magnesite, Fluorine-FluoriteProspect1974
Mississippi Chemical Corp - HardeePhosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Magnesite, Iron, Aluminum, Fluorine-FluoriteProspect1967
Olliff OptionPhosphorus-Phosphates, Iron, Uranium, Magnesite, Aluminum, Fluorine-FluoriteProspectChemical Sediment, Marine

Every working recorded in Hardee County

Storms near this place

8 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 1997FloodOna$30,000Heavy rainfall of four to six inches caused localized flooding of roads and low-lying areas across mainly western portions of Hardee county.
March 2018Thunderstorm WindOna$15,000Hardee 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 2021FloodOna$10,000Florida Highway Patrol reported SR 64 closed in Ona near railroad tracks due to water covering railroad crossing.
September 1998Thunderstorm WindOna$1,000The Peace River Electric Coop reported thunderstorm winds downed a couple of large trees and power lines near Ona.
July 2021FloodOna-Emergency Management reported water covering roadway along SR-64 near Hickory Creek east of Ona.
January 2011Tornado (EF0)Ona-A tornado was reported in rural Hardee County. No damage was reported. The time was estimated off of radar.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindOna-The wind gust was measured at the Ona FAWN station.
May 2005HailOna-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hardee 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
Vandolah2.3 miles14
Oak Grove2.5 miles13
Bridges5.1 miles13
Zolfo Springs6.6 miles13
Moffitt6.7 miles13
Wauchula7.3 miles15
Fort Green Springs7.6 miles14
Coker8.0 miles15

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 OnaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6050731The 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.