Whitney, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Leesburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34748. The Survey maps it on the Leesburg West quadrangle.

Whitney within Lake 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 Whitney, surveyed 1979

Topographic sheet of Whitney, surveyed 1955

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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 Orlando quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Leesburg West quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1979 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

72 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Whitney between 1992 and 2020, burning about 536 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 8 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	22
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Debris and open burning	11
Arson/incendiarism	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Fireworks	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 2001	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
4 August 1993	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
7 July 2004	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	BLUE STREAK/0645
20 July 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	10 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
19 July 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
19 July 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
28 June 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
2 June 2002	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Whitney: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Hewitt Contracting Company, Inc. - Hewitt Mine	Sand	Unknown
Logan Sitework Contractiors, Inc. - Logan Mine	Sand	Unknown
Logan Sitework Contractors, Inc. - Logan Sand & Clay Mine	Sand	Unknown

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whitney in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
October 2024	Flash Flood	Whitney	-	The outer rainbands of Hurricane Milton impacted Lake County initially during the mid to late afternoon hours on Oct 9, resulting in 4 to 6 inches of rain that produced low-lying and urban-type flooding. As the core of Milton moved over central Florida late that night, an additional 4 to 6 inches fell across the same area, resulting in flash and significant urban flooding across many areas of the county. Numerous roads were closed in the county as a result of the flash flooding, particularly in the south part of the county near Clermont, Groveland, and Mascotte.\|\|The heavy rain that fell as a result of the storm also led to a long-term river flood event along the St. Johns. At Deland, the river rapidly rose to major flood stage on Oct 11, peaking at 5.49 ft on Oct. 14. Downstream at Astor, the river was already in minor flood stage at the beginning of the event and quickly rose to major the morning of Oct 10, peaking at 4.81 ft on Oct 12, a new record for the site.
April 2009	Hail	Whitney	-	Public report of quarter sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
Montclair	1.2 miles	14
Leesburg	3.2 miles	14
Fruitland Park	3.5 miles	14
Okahumpka (historical)	4.0 miles	14
Cisky Park	4.9 miles	12
Hawthorne	5.2 miles	12
Okahumpka	5.3 miles	10
Sunnyside	5.5 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 293257. 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.