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South Brooksville, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Brooksville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34601. The Survey maps it on the Brooksville quadrangle. 4,311 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 115 feet above sea level.

South Brooksville within Hernando County

Then and now

1954 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 44 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of South Brooksville, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of South Brooksville, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Population over time

3 figures

South Brooksville grew from 1,376 to 4,311 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
20001,376
20104,007+2,631 (+191%)
20204,311+304 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

197 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 197 fires within 5 miles of South Brooksville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,743 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 17 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 maintenance53
Equipment and vehicle use35
Debris and open burning32
Misuse of fire by a minor19
Arson/incendiarism17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking2
Other causes2

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 1992Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 July 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceNAPLES (27)
8 July 2017Natural100 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCAMPMINE RD(27)
30 July 1999Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 July 1996Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 July 2007Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Service27/FOXFIRE/0807
9 June 1999Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hernando County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of South Brooksville: 1 plant, 1 producer, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Calcium, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, 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
Brooksville Gay QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Brooksville Lime KilnCalciumPlant
Dot Dade City - Mason-Smith MineLimestone, GeneralUnknownLimestone
Wayne Thomas PitClayPast Producer

Every working 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
Tooke Lake Junction0.8 miles16
Brooksville1.8 miles16
North Brooksville2.9 miles16
Powell3.0 miles13
Wiscon3.2 miles16
Conrock3.6 miles14
Garden Grove3.9 miles13
Camps4.4 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 South BrooksvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2586277The 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 1867206. 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.