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Pine Island, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Hernando Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34607. It stands on Pine Island. The Survey maps it on the Bayport quadrangle. 62 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.

Pine Island within Hernando County

Then and now

1954 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 25 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 Island, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Pine Island, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Population over time

3 figures

Pine Island fell from 64 to 62 between 2000 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
200064
2010640 (0%)
202062-2 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

56 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Pine Island between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,569 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 9 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
Natural23
Arson/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 1996Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2001Natural80 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 September 1992Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2011Natural20 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBUSH MILLS (27)
9 August 1993Natural12 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 1998Natural70 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 August 2006Natural15 acresFlorida Forest Service27/GLEN LAKES FIRE/0924

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hernando 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 Island: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand. 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
Hernando Sandpit & Wood Facility - Hernando SandpitSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Hernando County

Storms near this place

1 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Island in 1 storm report in 1993: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 1993Thunderstorm WindPine Island-Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees and power lines.

Every storm recorded in Hernando 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
Cooglers Beach1.5 miles16
Bayport2.1 miles16
Palm Grove Colony2.2 miles16
Weeki Wachee Gardens3.1 miles16
Weekiwachee Gardens5.7 miles14
Weeki Wachee5.9 miles14
Berkeley6.0 miles14
Weeki Wachee Acres7.0 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 Pine IslandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q951925The 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 295537. 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.