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Wiscon, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Brooksville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34601. The Survey maps it on the Brooksville quadrangle. 681 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 85 feet above sea level.

Wiscon within Hernando County

Then and now

1954 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 44 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Wiscon, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Wiscon, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Wiscon fell from 706 to 681 between 2010 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
2010706
2020681-25 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

335 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 335 fires within 5 miles of Wiscon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,994 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 49 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 maintenance84
Equipment and vehicle use56
Arson/incendiarism49
Debris and open burning44
Misuse of fire by a minor36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Natural19
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking2
Other causes2

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 1992Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceDRY CREEK/1187
22 September 1992Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 August 2004Natural8.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHEXUM FIRE/0734
3 August 2013Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBRAEMERE (27)
28 August 1997Railroad operations and maintenance13 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2005Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresFlorida Forest Service27/WREN FIRE/0598
20 August 1996Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 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

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Wiscon: 1 plant, 1 producer, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Calcium, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, 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
Brooksville Gay QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Brooksville Lime KilnCalciumPlant
Dot Dade City - Mason-Smith MineLimestone, GeneralUnknownLimestone
Wayne Thomas PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hernando County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wiscon in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindWiscon$5,000An RV business had their sign blown down, a carport blown over, and minor damage to empty cargo trailers, utility sheds, and truck toppers.

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
Norman1.6 miles16
Brookridge1.7 miles16
South Brooksville3.2 miles16
High Point3.3 miles14
North Brooksville3.6 miles16
Powell3.8 miles13
Camps3.9 miles16
Tooke Lake Junction4.0 miles16

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 WisconAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6168019The 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 294978. 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.