Buenaventura Lakes, Florida
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the St. Cloud census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34743. The Survey maps it on the Saint Cloud North quadrangle. 30,251 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 62 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1953 to 1979The 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.


Population over time
2 figuresBuenaventura Lakes grew from 26,079 to 30,251 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 26,079 | |
| 2020 | 30,251 | +4,172 (+16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1953 USGS St Cloud North quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS St. Cloud North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Kissimmee quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
94 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Buenaventura Lakes between 1992 and 2020, burning about 913 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 12 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 | 21 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 20 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 14 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 12 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 August 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 5 August 1998 | Natural | 7.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 25 August 1996 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 8 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | ARBOR (48) |
| 7 July 2000 | Natural | 193 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 2 July 2019 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | BEAR CREEK (48) |
| 15 July 1999 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 4 June 2000 | Natural | 30 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kissimmee | 4.2 miles | 13 | |
| Tohopikaliga (historical) | 5.8 miles | 14 | |
| Narcoossee | 6.6 miles | 12 | |
| Runnymede | 6.9 miles | 12 | |
| Saint Cloud | 7.1 miles | 12 | |
| Campbell | 7.6 miles | 13 | |
| Ashton | 8.5 miles | 13 | |
| Celebration | 9.6 miles | 13 |
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 Buenaventura Lakes | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2586287 | The 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 1853238. 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.






