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Yeehaw Junction, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the South and East Osceola census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34972. The Survey maps it on the Fort Drum NW quadrangle. 235 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 49 feet above sea level.

Yeehaw Junction within Osceola County

Then and now

1953 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 35 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Yeehaw Junction, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Yeehaw Junction, surveyed 1953

On record in Yeehaw Junction

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

Yeehaw Junction fell from 240 to 235 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
2010240
2020235-5 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Yeehaw Junction between 1992 and 2019, burning about 7,983 acres in total. 63 started naturally. 4 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
Natural63
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 September 1996Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2003Natural45 acresFlorida Forest Service2003-12-1117 O-6 OSCEOLA
8 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(OK) ROLLINS1 (1275)
30 August 2000Natural50 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 August 2016Natural160 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSLOW BURN (49)
13 August 2006Natural140 acresFlorida Forest Service(IR) KV (1326)
10 August 2018Natural120 acresFlorida Forest ServiceINDIAN MOUND (49)
9 July 1997Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Osceola County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yeehaw Junction in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 hail. 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
March 1995HailYeehaw Junction-Dime-size hail was reported at Yeehaw Junction

Every storm recorded in Osceola 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
Lokosee3.8 miles13
Kenansville12.9 miles14
Whittier13.1 miles15
Lake Marian Highlands14.2 miles16
Deer Park27.0 miles12
Holopaw31.4 miles9
Harmony36.1 miles13
South Port38.5 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 Yeehaw JunctionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2566366The 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 295717. 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.

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.