Wahoo, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Bushnell-Center Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33513. It lies near Bee Island. The Survey maps it on the Wahoo quadrangle.

Wahoo within Sumter County

Then and now

1955 to 1979

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 Wahoo, surveyed 1979

Topographic sheet of Wahoo, surveyed 1955

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1955 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Wahoo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Inverness quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

48 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Wahoo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,426 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 2 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 maintenance	14
Debris and open burning	11
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Natural	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
15 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	60/HAY BALE FIRE 0629
27 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
22 August 2005	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	60/PLANTATION FIRE 0592
23 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Florida Forest Service	609A (60)
15 July 1992	Natural	100 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
10 July 1994	Natural	280 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
8 June 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
28 June 2007	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	60/OAK TREE FIRE/0779

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Bay Hill	2.7 miles	13
Bushnell	4.7 miles	15
Lincoln Park	5.3 miles	15
Carver	5.5 miles	15
Saint Catherine	6.3 miles	14
Lake Panasoffkee	7.0 miles	19
Sumterville	8.0 miles	15
Bevilles Corner	8.0 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 294963. 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.