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Pine Hills, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Orlando census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32808. The Survey maps it on the Orlando West quadrangle. 66,111 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 112 feet above sea level.

Pine Hills within Orange County

Then and now

1955 to 1995

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 Pine Hills, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Pine Hills, surveyed 1955

Compare 1955 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Pine Hills grew from 60,076 to 66,111 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
201060,076
202066,111+6,035 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

65 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Pine Hills between 1992 and 2018, burning about 7,840 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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 maintenance24
Arson/incendiarism12
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning4
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
28 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceJUNE BUG (48)
21 August 2000Railroad operations and maintenance8.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 June 1998Railroad operations and maintenance7.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 June 2000Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 June 1998Debris and open burning1.8 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 May 1996Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 May 2008Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSLEEPWALKER (04)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pine Hills: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Mabel QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this place

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Hills in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 2018: 3 lightning, 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 3 injuries. 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
August 2016LightningPine Hills1 hurtA 14 year old male student was standing in a parking lot at the First Academy in Orlando when lightning struck a tree nearby. The student was transported to a local hospital and was admitted in stable condition. He was released from the hospital the following day.
April 2007LightningPine Hills1 hurtA man was knocked unconscious by lightning while standing next to his personal water craft at Moss Park. He was revived by CPR.
July 2005LightningPine Hills1 hurtA male construction worker was injured by lightning while working on a roof.
February 1998Thunderstorm WindPine Hills$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down a carport and blew widows out at a house.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindPine Hills$1,000Pictures relayed by local broadcast media shows a large tree that fell on a car and caused power outages in the area. Winds were estimated at 50-55 mph with the strong storm.
September 1994HailPine Hills-Severe thunderstorms produce dime-size-hail and blew down numerous trees in southwest Orange County.
August 2003HailPine Hills-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orange 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
Orlovista1.4 miles15
Fairvilla2.8 miles15
Rosemont3.2 miles15
Fairview Shores3.9 miles15
Orlando4.2 miles15
Gotha4.2 miles14
Lockhart4.3 miles15
Minorville (historical)4.5 miles14

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 Pine HillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3294011The 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 288851. 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.