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Taylor Creek, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Okeechobee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34974. It stands on Mosquito Creek. The Survey maps it on the Okeechobee quadrangle. 4,470 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Taylor Creek within Okeechobee County

Then and now

1952 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 36 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Taylor Creek, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Taylor Creek, surveyed 1952

On record in Taylor Creek

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

2 figures

Taylor Creek grew from 4,348 to 4,470 between 2010 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
20104,348
20204,470+122 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

260 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 260 fires within 5 miles of Taylor Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 588 acres in total. 37 started naturally. 24 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 burning47
Railroad operations and maintenance44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Natural37
Arson/incendiarism24
Power generation/transmission/distribution21
Equipment and vehicle use19
Misuse of fire by a minor18
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony4
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
4 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 September 1997Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2018Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceDEAD OAK (47)
4 August 1999Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Okeechobee County

Storms near this place

1 since 1972

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Taylor Creek in 1 storm report in 1972: 1 tornado. The reports record 6 deaths and 44 injuries. 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
June 1972Tornado (F2)Taylor Creek6 killed, 44 hurt, $500,000A tornado cut a path up to 150 yards wide and 4.5 miles long as it moved north from Taylor Creek, affecting Treasure Island Park, a fishing lodge and several other mobile home parks. Six people were killed and 44 were injured (many seriously). Over one hundred mobile homes were destroyed or heavily damaged. Property damage was estimated near $500,000. Note: this event was added in 2018, following a reanalysis by NWS Melbourne.

Every storm recorded in Okeechobee 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
Sherman1.9 miles15
Cypress Quarters2.8 miles14
Okeechobee2.8 miles15
Barber Quarters3.6 miles14
Up the Grove Beach4.4 miles15
Whispering Pines5.0 miles14
Basswood Estates5.6 miles14
Mildred8.9 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 Taylor CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2586331The 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 1867217. 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.

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.