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Blue Lakes Ridge, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Umatilla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32767. The Survey maps it on the Paisley quadrangle.

Blue Lakes Ridge 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 Blue Lakes Ridge, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Blue Lakes Ridge, surveyed 1955

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

281 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 281 fires within 5 miles of Blue Lakes Ridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,153 acres in total. 98 started naturally. 37 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
Natural98
Missing data/not specified/undetermined54
Arson/incendiarism37
Debris and open burning29
Railroad operations and maintenance21
Equipment and vehicle use16
Recreation and ceremony12
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking1
Fireworks1

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
5 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresNational Forests in Floridanot named
20 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2016Naturalunder an acreNational Forests in FloridaCAMPGROUND
12 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.1 acresNational Forests in FloridaMAPLE GROVE
8 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNational Forests in FloridaPAISLEY
6 August 1996Natural5.0 acresNational Forests in FloridaBLACKWATER 1
6 August 1996Naturalunder an acreNational Forests in FloridaHOTEL 2
4 August 2009Natural2.5 acresFlorida Forest Service35/LEEWARD ROAD FIRE/0856

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blue Lakes Ridge in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2008Thunderstorm WindBlue Lakes Ridge$4,000Thunderstorm winds blew down trees on a house and blocked a road.

Every storm 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
Paisley0.6 miles13
Johnsons Corner0.9 miles13
Chain O'Lakes1.0 miles13
Lake Kathryn2.9 miles10
Lake Kathryn Heights3.0 miles10
Fullerville4.4 miles10
Lake Mack Park5.0 miles13
Forest Hills5.7 miles10

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.

Wikidata item Q122541393The 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 305341. 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.