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Weeki Wachee Gardens, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Hernando Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34607. It stands on Mud River. The Survey maps it on the Bayport quadrangle. 1,138 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.

Weeki Wachee Gardens within Hernando County

Then and now

1954 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 25 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 Gardens, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Weeki Wachee Gardens, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Population over time

3 figures

Weeki Wachee Gardens fell from 1,140 to 1,138 between 2000 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.

YearPeople Change
20001,140
20101,146+6 (+1%)
20201,138-8 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

145 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Weeki Wachee Gardens between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,517 acres in total. 39 started naturally. 20 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
Natural39
Equipment and vehicle use24
Arson/incendiarism20
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Debris and open burning11
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
9 September 1996Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2020Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePOND (27)
5 September 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service27-GOLD STAR-0954
4 September 2001Natural80 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 September 1992Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2011Natural20 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBUSH MILLS (27)
10 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hernando County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Weeki Wachee Gardens: 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand. 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
Hernando Sandpit & Wood Facility - Hernando SandpitSandUnknown
Oman Constr. - Aripeka MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working 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
Bayport1.1 miles16
Palm Grove Colony1.2 miles16
Cooglers Beach1.7 miles16
Weekiwachee Gardens2.7 miles14
Berkeley3.0 miles14
Pine Island3.1 miles16
Weeki Wachee3.3 miles14
Weeki Wachee Acres3.9 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.

Wikipedia article on Weeki Wachee GardensAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2059287The 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 1867226. 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.