Ozello, Florida
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Crystal River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34429. It lies near Paradise Island. The Survey maps it on the Ozello quadrangle.
Then and now
1954 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 40 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1954 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 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.
- 1954 USGS Ozello quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Inverness quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Ozello quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
48 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Ozello between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,713 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 17 September 1997 | Natural | 1,700 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 13 August 2020 | Natural | 12 acres | Florida Forest Service | BUFFER (09) |
| 1 August 1994 | Natural | 20 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 1 August 1994 | Natural | 50 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 7 July 2008 | Natural | 3.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | 09/DIXIE SHORE FIRE/0728 |
| 5 July 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | WATERBIRD (09) |
| 5 July 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 95 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ozello in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2005: 2 waterspout, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ozello | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Funnel Cloud | Ozello | - | Emergency Management relayed numerous reports of funnel clouds around Ozella. |
| May 1999 | Waterspout | Ozello | - | The public reported a waterspout at latitude 28.8 degrees north and longitude 82.8 degrees west through the U.S. Coast Guard. |
| June 1999 | Waterspout | Ozello | - | The public reported a waterspout west of Homosassa Bay through the Citrus County Emergency Management. |
| September 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Ozello | - | A short lived tornado, associated with the outer bands of Hurricane Earl, touched down over the rural bayou region near Ozello in extreme western Citrus County with no apparent damage. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homosassa | 3.8 miles | 15 | |
| Homosassa Springs | 4.6 miles | 15 | |
| Cutlers | 4.7 miles | 15 | |
| Paradise Point | 5.3 miles | 14 | |
| Crystal River | 6.3 miles | 14 | |
| Chassahowitzka | 8.9 miles | 15 | |
| Lecanto | 9.2 miles | 25 | |
| Red Level | 10.0 miles | 16 |
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 Ozello | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7116549 | 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 294878. 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.
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.







