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Venus, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Lake Placid census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33960. The Survey maps it on the Venus quadrangle. It stands 108 feet above sea level.

Venus within Highlands County

Then and now

1956 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 32 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Venus, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Venus, surveyed 1956

On record in Venus

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

187 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of Venus between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,231 acres in total. 62 started naturally. 3 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
Natural62
Debris and open burning38
Equipment and vehicle use35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Railroad operations and maintenance19
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
26 September 1993Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2016Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHENRY ROAD (28)
19 September 2016Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePLATT (22)
19 September 2011Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSUNBURST (28)
15 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(GL) THE SMOKE FIRE (1180)
12 September 2019Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceRIMES (28)
8 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceVENUS ISLAND (28)
6 August 2017Natural39 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWOLF BAY (22)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Highlands County

Storms near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Venus in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 2 tornado, 1 dust devil, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 2012Tornado (EF0)Venus1 killed, $15,000A 32-year-old woman in Venus died from injuries after a tornado threw her 200 feet away from her home. She was found cradling her 3-year-old daughter in her arms who survived.
October 2024Tornado (EF1)Venus$100,000Tornado damage was first observed near the intersection of County|Rd 731 and Alphonso Lane, where several hardwood oaks had large|branches snapped along with a home with roof and garage damage.|The track continued north along Alphonso Lane producing roof|damage to an additional home and shed, while snapping several|pine trees and uprooting a few palm trees. A small storage|structure was destroyed and multiple long trailers, a large|pickup truck and horse trailer were overturned at one residence,|while another had a speedboat knocked into it after being blown|off its trailer. Another residence had a RV moved about 100 yards|from a carport, with an ATV at the location flipped. The damage|path continued north for another quarter-mile, snapping two large|oak trees near the trunk before becoming difficult to discern|thereafter, with the tornado estimated to have dissipated. Maximum estimated winds were 105 mph.
September 2000Flash FloodVenus$20,000no account filed
March 1999Dust DevilVenus$12,000A dust-devil caused minor damage to plants and tarps of a nursery along Old State Road 8 in Venus.

Every storm recorded in Highlands 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
Hicoria5.8 miles13
Archbold7.9 miles13
Bairs Den9.9 miles13
Childs9.9 miles13
Bear Hollow10.4 miles13
Placid Lakes12.3 miles13
Parker Island12.6 miles13
Lake Placid15.6 miles14

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 VenusAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1021055The 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 294958. 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.