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Yalaha, Florida

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Howey-in-the-Hills-Okahumpka census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34797. The Survey maps it on the Howey-in-the-Hills quadrangle. 1,505 people lived here at the 2024 count. It stands 75 feet above sea level.

Yalaha 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 Yalaha, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Yalaha, surveyed 1955

Population over time

3 figures

Yalaha grew from 1,175 to 1,505 between 2000 and 2024. 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
20001,175
20101,364+189 (+16%)
20241,505+141 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

87 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Yalaha between 1992 and 2020, burning about 915 acres in total. 14 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
Debris and open burning21
Natural14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Equipment and vehicle use11
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1
Smoking1

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
3 September 2001Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 August 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlorida Forest Service35/BLOOMFIELD FIRE/0604
27 August 1999Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 August 2000Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 August 2011Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceREVELS (35)
19 July 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 July 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 June 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot 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 Yalaha: 1 past producer, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Kaolin, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Astatula Sand MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Florida China Clay Company PitKaolinPast Producer
Florida Rock Industries, Inc - Astatula MineSandUnknown

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Pumpkin Center1.8 miles11
Howey-in-the-Hills2.4 miles11
Lane Park3.6 miles12
Hawthorne3.7 miles12
Orange Blossom3.7 miles11
Eldorado4.1 miles12
Sunnyside4.4 miles12
Cisky Park4.4 miles12

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 YalahaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2285845The 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 294203. 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.