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Yankeetown, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Cedar Key-Yankeetown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34498. It lies near Helverson Island. The Survey maps it on the Yankeetown quadrangle. 588 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Yankeetown within Levy County

Then and now

1954 to 1978

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 Yankeetown, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Yankeetown, surveyed 1954

On record in Yankeetown

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Yankeetown grew from 502 to 588 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
2010502
2020588+86 (+17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

200 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 200 fires within 5 miles of Yankeetown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,108 acres in total. 125 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
Natural125
Arson/incendiarism20
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use10
Debris and open burning7
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony2
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 2004Natural12 acresFlorida Forest ServicePINK FIRE-0739
28 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2006Smokingunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceLEVY - JIFFY LUBE FIRE
17 September 1997Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 1997Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2016Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePALM TREE (09)
13 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2008Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service09/BARGE FIRE/0912

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Levy County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Yankeetown: 3 producers, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Crystal River QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gulf Coast QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gulf Rock, Inc. - Gulf Rock No. 1 MineLimestone, GeneralUnknownLimestone
Holnam - Crystal River QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Independent Aggregates - Ind. Agg. QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Levy County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yankeetown in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2019Thunderstorm WindYankeetown$20,000Levy County Emergency Management reported numerous trees down in Yankeetown, a couple of which fell partially on to houses.
March 2011Thunderstorm WindYankeetown$15,000Trees were uprooted in Yankeetown and fell on at least one home and brought down power lines.
November 2008Thunderstorm WindYankeetown$10,000Trees and powerlines were downed by wind north of Crackertown.
May 2012Tornado (EF0)Yankeetown-A large waterspout moved onshore at Hodges Island, then began to dissipate. Damage was limited to trees as the tornado was just north of roads and buildings in this rural area.

Every storm recorded in Levy 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
Crackertown1.6 miles12
Inglis2.5 miles12
Port Inglis3.4 miles11
Tidewater10.3 miles11
Beetree Ford14.3 miles11
Gulf Hammock15.4 miles10
Rosewood18.4 miles11
Cedar Key18.5 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 YankeetownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2155971The 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 293564. 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.