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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.

Spring Lake within Hernando County

Then and now

1954 to 1978

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Spring Lake, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Spring Lake, surveyed 1954

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.

Population over time

3 figures

Spring 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.

YearPeople Change
2000327
2010458+131 (+40%)
2020465+7 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

157 since 1992

Regional 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 maintenance40
Debris and open burning36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use19
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Arson/incendiarism11
Natural8
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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
29 September 2007Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Service27/WALMART FIRE/1119
27 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 September 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest Service27/SOULT RD FIRE/0946
20 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFlorida Forest Service27/ST CLAIR ISLAND FIRE/0915
1 August 1998Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hernando County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Claire H. Clements - Master Tract MineSandUnknown
Dot Dade City - Clay MineClayUnknown

Every working recorded in Hernando County

Storms near this place

2 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2012Thunderstorm WindSpring Lake$10,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees that took down power lines near the intersection of Spring Lake Highway and Old Spring Lake Road.
August 1996Thunderstorm WindSpring Lake$10,000no account filed

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
Hill 'n Dale1.8 miles14
Dixie4.0 miles15
Conrock4.7 miles14
Rital4.9 miles14
Tooke Lake Junction5.2 miles16
South Brooksville5.9 miles16
Brooksville6.2 miles16
Powell6.7 miles13

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 LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2571650The 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.