BlockBay Lake, Florida
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Fort McCoy-Anthony census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32134. The Survey maps it on the Eureka Dam quadrangle.
Then and now
1954 to 1978The 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 sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Eureka Dam quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1978 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
190 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 190 fires within 5 miles of Bay Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,543 acres in total. 64 started naturally. 19 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 64 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 |
| Debris and open burning | 29 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 22 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 21 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 19 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2013 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | MILL POND(42) |
| 4 September 2000 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 21 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 15 September 1997 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 9 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | PUTNAM/DEAD-END FIRE |
| 5 August 2002 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 29 August 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | RABBITPATCH(42) |
| 24 August 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 4.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bay Lake in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2011 | Heavy Rain | Bay Lake | - | The Orange Springs COOP Observer measured 6.80 inches within 24 hours. The event time was during peak rainfall. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tobacco Patch Landing | 2.8 miles | 9 | |
| Orange Springs | 4.4 miles | 24 | |
| Hog Valley | 5.4 miles | 9 | |
| Fort McCoy | 5.6 miles | 10 | |
| Fort Brook Landing | 5.9 miles | 24 | |
| Eureka | 6.3 miles | 10 | |
| Citra | 7.5 miles | 17 | |
| Lakeside Travel Park | 9.2 miles | 17 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 305244. 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.