Spring Lake, Florida
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Brooksville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34602. The Survey maps it on the Spring Lake quadrangle. 465 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 310 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1954 to 1978The same ground, surveyed 24 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1954 against another survey:
On record in Spring Lake
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Spring Lake Community Centerlisted 2009 · 0.1 miles away
Population over time
3 figuresSpring Lake grew from 327 to 465 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 327 | |
| 2010 | 458 | +131 (+40%) |
| 2020 | 465 | +7 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Spring Lake quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Spring Lake quadrangle1:25000
- 1955 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
157 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 157 fires within 5 miles of Spring Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 866 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 11 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 maintenance | 40 |
| Debris and open burning | 36 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 19 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2007 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 27/WALMART FIRE/1119 |
| 27 September 1996 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 13 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 1 September 1994 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 8 August 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 7 August 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 27/SOULT RD FIRE/0946 |
| 20 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | 27/ST CLAIR ISLAND FIRE/0915 |
| 1 August 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Spring Lake: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claire H. Clements - Master Tract Mine | Sand | Unknown | ||
| Dot Dade City - Clay Mine | Clay | Unknown |
Storms near this place
2 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spring Lake in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 2012: 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Lake | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed trees that took down power lines near the intersection of Spring Lake Highway and Old Spring Lake Road. |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Lake | $10,000 | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hill 'n Dale | 1.8 miles | 14 | |
| Dixie | 4.0 miles | 15 | |
| Conrock | 4.7 miles | 14 | |
| Rital | 4.9 miles | 14 | |
| Tooke Lake Junction | 5.2 miles | 16 | |
| South Brooksville | 5.9 miles | 16 | |
| Brooksville | 6.2 miles | 16 | |
| Powell | 6.7 miles | 13 |
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 Spring Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2571650 | The 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 291557. 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.







