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Belle Isle, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Orlando census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32809. The Survey maps it on the Pine Castle quadrangle. 7,032 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 95 feet above sea level.

Belle Isle within Orange County

Then and now

1953 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 26 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Belle Isle, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Belle Isle, surveyed 1953

Compare 1953 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Belle Isle grew from 5,988 to 7,032 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
20105,988
20207,032+1,044 (+17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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 Belle Isle between 1992 and 2020, burning about 480 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 17 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 maintenance30
Arson/incendiarism17
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural6
Debris and open burning3
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
6 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.8 acresFlorida Forest ServicePLAYGROUND (4)
7 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 August 1998Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 August 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 August 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 August 1999Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Storms near this place

5 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belle Isle in 5 storm reports between 2003 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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 2020Tornado (EF1)Belle Isle$956,000A National Weather Service damage survey and numerous eyewitness reports, photographs and video confirmed a waterspout/tornado moved north along a 5.1 mile path from Lake Conway to Thornton Park. The peak intensity was estimated at 100-105 mph.||A waterspout initially formed on the west-central portion of Lake Conway at approximately 1820LST and traveled north, briefly coming onshore and crossing a narrow strip of land at Hoffner Avenue, then moving back over water, crossing Little Lake Conway. The waterspout then moved back onshore as a tornado at the south end of Ferncreek Avenue. The tornado nearly paralleled Ferncreek Avenue and Martin Street as it moved nearly due north, crossing State Road 408, and lifting at Lake Lawsona Park at approximately 1832LST.||Damage was continuous along a 5.1 mile swath with a width of 350-500 yards. As the tornado came onshore at Hoffner Avenue it briefly attained EF-1 intensity (peak winds estimated at 85-90 mph) resulting in severe damage to the roof of a lakefront home and numerous large trees were toppled. Damage along much of the remainder of the path was rated EF-0 (winds estimated 65-85 mph).||The EF-0 damage consisted generally of uprooted trees, toppled trees, and snapped large branches. Several large trees fell onto homes, causing significant damage mainly to roofs. Multiple vehicles were damaged due to downed trees and fallen large branches. ||The tornado reached peak intensity of EF-1 in the vicinity of Ferncreek Avenue, Lake Margaret Drive and Carmia Drive (estimated peak winds 100-105 mph). Several one story apartment buildings lost significant portions of their roofs.||There were no injuries or fatalities. The OrangeCounty Property Appraiser's Office reported 42 homes and businesses were damaged, totaling $955,748.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindBelle Isle$1,000Orange County Fire Rescue reported a tree down at 1719 Hoffner Ave.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindBelle Isle-A Weather Underground mesonet site just north of the Orando International Airport measured a peak wind gust of 60 mph.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindBelle Isle-Thunderstorm winds blew down trees in Belle Isle.
July 2007HailBelle Isle-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orange 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
Nela Isle Annex (historical)0.7 miles13
South Lake Conway Villa0.9 miles13
Canal Addition (historical)0.9 miles13
Lake Conway Park (historical)1.0 miles13
Pine Castle1.0 miles13
Sky Lake1.7 miles12
Taft2.0 miles13
Edgewood2.0 miles13

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 Belle IsleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2154059The 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 278447. 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.