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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.

Ozello within Citrus County

Then and now

1954 to 1994

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Ozello, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Ozello, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

48 since 1993

Regional 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
Natural15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism6
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
2 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 1997Natural1,700 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 August 2020Natural12 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBUFFER (09)
1 August 1994Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 August 1994Natural50 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2008Natural3.5 acresFlorida Forest Service09/DIXIE SHORE FIRE/0728
5 July 2011Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWATERBIRD (09)
5 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined95 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Citrus County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1996Thunderstorm WindOzello$20,000no account filed
June 2005Funnel CloudOzello-Emergency Management relayed numerous reports of funnel clouds around Ozella.
May 1999WaterspoutOzello-The public reported a waterspout at latitude 28.8 degrees north and longitude 82.8 degrees west through the U.S. Coast Guard.
June 1999WaterspoutOzello-The public reported a waterspout west of Homosassa Bay through the Citrus County Emergency Management.
September 1998Tornado (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.

Every storm recorded in Citrus 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
Homosassa3.8 miles15
Homosassa Springs4.6 miles15
Cutlers4.7 miles15
Paradise Point5.3 miles14
Crystal River6.3 miles14
Chassahowitzka8.9 miles15
Lecanto9.2 miles25
Red Level10.0 miles16

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 OzelloAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7116549The 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.