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.
Then and now
1952 to 1988The 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.


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.
Okeechobee BattlefieldNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966 · 0.7 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresTaylor 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 4,348 | |
| 2020 | 4,470 | +122 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1952 USGS Okeechobee quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1981 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
260 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 47 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 44 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 38 |
| Natural | 37 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 24 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 21 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 19 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 18 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2002 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 28 September 1996 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 25 September 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 18 September 2001 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 14 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 1 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 9 August 2018 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | DEAD OAK (47) |
| 4 August 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 1972Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1972 | Tornado (F2) | Taylor Creek | 6 killed, 44 hurt, $500,000 | A 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. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sherman | 1.9 miles | 15 | |
| Cypress Quarters | 2.8 miles | 14 | |
| Okeechobee | 2.8 miles | 15 | |
| Barber Quarters | 3.6 miles | 14 | |
| Up the Grove Beach | 4.4 miles | 15 | |
| Whispering Pines | 5.0 miles | 14 | |
| Basswood Estates | 5.6 miles | 14 | |
| Mildred | 8.9 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 Taylor Creek | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2586331 | 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 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.






