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Weeki Wachee Acres, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Spring Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34606. The Survey maps it on the Port Richey NE quadrangle.

Weeki Wachee Acres within Hernando County

Then and now

1954 to 1999

The same ground, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Weeki Wachee Acres, surveyed 1999
Topographic sheet of Weeki Wachee Acres, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

209 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 209 fires within 5 miles of Weeki Wachee Acres between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,980 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 37 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
Equipment and vehicle use50
Arson/incendiarism37
Misuse of fire by a minor29
Natural27
Railroad operations and maintenance20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Debris and open burning12
Recreation and ceremony7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking3
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
5 September 2020Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePOND (27)
5 September 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service27-GOLD STAR-0954
10 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service27/PALM TREE FIRE/1020
19 August 1998Natural750 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 August 1998Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 August 1998Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 August 1997Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hernando County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Weeki Wachee Acres: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Oman Constr. - Aripeka MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Hernando County

Storms near this place

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Weeki Wachee Acres in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
November 2018Tornado (EF1)Weeki Wachee Acres$500,000Local Emergency Management reported two roofs that sustained major damage from a tornado in Spring Hill with 15 additional homes having minor sustained minor damage.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindWeeki Wachee Acres$6,000Numerous trees were uprooted and snapped near the intersection of Vancouver Rd. and Gaspar Ave. in Spring Hill. There were also a few downed power poles in the area.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindWeeki Wachee Acres$2,000Broadcast media relayed a picture of trees down on a car in Spring Hill. Time was estimated from radar.
July 2024Funnel CloudWeeki Wachee Acres-Broadcast media shared multiple videos of a funnel cloud west of Spring Hill.
April 2010HailWeeki Wachee Acres-Penny to nickel sized hail fell for five minutes near Spring Hill.

Every storm recorded in Hernando 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
Weekiwachee Woodlands0.1 miles15
Timber Pines0.9 miles15
Berkeley1.4 miles14
Weekiwachee Gardens1.8 miles14
Weeki Wachee2.6 miles14
Willow Sink2.7 miles15
Hernando Beach3.4 miles14
Spring Hill3.8 miles15

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.

Wikidata item Q122564758The 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 1867225. 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.