Umatilla, Florida
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Umatilla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32784. The Survey maps it on the Umatilla quadrangle. 3,685 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 98 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1955 to 1979The 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.


On record in Umatilla
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 1 record
Population over time
2 figuresUmatilla grew from 3,456 to 3,685 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 | 3,456 | |
| 2020 | 3,685 | +229 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 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.
- 1955 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Umatilla quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1979 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
180 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 180 fires within 5 miles of Umatilla between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,648 acres in total. 33 started naturally. 19 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 | 37 |
| Natural | 33 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 32 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 26 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 20 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 19 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | National Forests in Florida | NICOTOON |
| 21 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | MILLS ST (35) |
| 1 September 2000 | Natural | 9.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 9 August 1993 | Natural | under an acre | National Forests in Florida | not named |
| 4 August 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 30 August 1993 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 25 August 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 2 August 1992 | Natural | under an acre | National Forests in Florida | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Umatilla: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marion Sand Mine | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
11 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Umatilla in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 lightning, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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 2018 | Lightning | Umatilla | 1 killed | Per a report received via a local newspaper, a 44-year-old man was killed after being struck by lightning in Umatilla. At 1721 LST, a man was found unconscious by his neighbors on a small pontoon boat at his home on Lake Owen, on the 40000th block of Long Island Drive in Umatilla. The neighbors called the Lake County Sheriffs Office, and first responders transported the man to a local hospital where he was pronounced deceased. The medical examiners office determined the cause of death to be electrocution, and this is further supported by burn marks found on the seat and floor of the boat. NWS Melbourne meteorologists determined the lightning strike occurred around 1258 LST, this was confirmed by reports from the neighbors who heard loud bang of the strike many hours before finding the deceased man on his boat. |
| May 2006 | Lightning | Umatilla | 1 hurt | A 10 year old female was struck by lightning while outside. She sustained minor injuries. |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Umatilla | $50,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines, destroyed a barn and damaged the roof of a mobile home in Umatilla. One mobile home was damaged by a falling tree. |
| May 2022 | Lightning | Umatilla | - | Lake County Emergency Management passed along a report of a man that was slightly injured after lightning struck a nearby fishing pole. The incident occurred along the 16500 block of Wilson Parrish Road in Umatilla at approximately 1910LST. The disoriented man was transported to a local hospital in Ocala, and was released later that day. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Umatilla | - | A few trees were blown down in the Umatilla area. |
| June 2001 | Hail | Umatilla | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Umatilla | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Umatilla | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Funnel Cloud | Umatilla | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Hail | Umatilla | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Umatilla | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Silver Beach Heights | 1.5 miles | 14 | |
| Confer | 2.1 miles | 14 | |
| Dona Vista | 2.7 miles | 14 | |
| Altoona | 2.7 miles | 14 | |
| Dalhousie Acres | 2.7 miles | 14 | |
| Fort Mason | 4.1 miles | 14 | |
| Grand Island | 4.7 miles | 14 | |
| Pittman | 5.0 miles | 14 |
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 Umatilla | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2152884 | 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 306530. 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.






