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Romeo, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Fellowship census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34432. The Survey maps it on the Romeo quadrangle.

Romeo within Marion County

Then and now

1892 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Romeo, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Romeo, surveyed 1892

Compare 1892 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

297 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 297 fires within 5 miles of Romeo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,983 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 20 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 burning86
Railroad operations and maintenance74
Equipment and vehicle use50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Natural23
Arson/incendiarism20
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Recreation and ceremony4
Other causes1
Fireworks1
Smoking1
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
26 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenance75 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSW 30TH LN (42)
18 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2004-08-0710/LAKE TROPICANA
1 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceLEVY - TABLE FIRE
5 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance25 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 August 1993Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 August 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSE 194TH COURT(38)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion 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 Romeo: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Loncala Phosphate - Minehead PlantLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Romeo in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2013: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
September 2013Thunderstorm WindRomeo-FHP reported a tree downed by thunderstorm winds near Romeo. The time of damage was based on radar.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindRomeo-The T & F Electric Company reported several trees down along SW Big Tree Road.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindRomeo-no account filed
June 1998HailRomeo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Luddersville3.3 miles17
Hoyt3.5 miles17
Early Bird3.7 miles17
Rainbow Park4.3 miles17
Rainbow Lakes Estates5.3 miles17
Rainbow Springs6.1 miles18
Cotton Plant6.5 miles17
Ocala Estates6.7 miles17

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 RomeoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q20065048The 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 294911. 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.