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Chain O'Lakes, 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.

Chain O'Lakes 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 Chain O'Lakes, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Chain O'Lakes, 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

315 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 315 fires within 5 miles of Chain O'Lakes between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,891 acres in total. 113 started naturally. 43 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
Natural113
Missing data/not specified/undetermined54
Arson/incendiarism43
Debris and open burning34
Railroad operations and maintenance24
Equipment and vehicle use18
Recreation and ceremony14
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking1
Other causes1
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
4 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service35/BEAR LAKE FIRE/1050
20 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2001Debris and open burning6.0 acresNational Forests in FloridaALEXANDER SPRINGS WI
19 September 2016Naturalunder an acreNational Forests in FloridaCAMPGROUND
8 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNational Forests in FloridaPAISLEY
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 Chain O'Lakes in 1 storm report in 2008: 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
October 2008HailChain O Lakes-Hail was reported near Chain 0 Lakes along State Highway 44.

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
Blue Lakes Ridge1.0 miles13
Paisley1.6 miles13
Johnsons Corner1.7 miles13
Lake Kathryn Heights2.4 miles10
Lake Kathryn2.4 miles10
Fullerville3.5 miles10
Lake Mack Park4.0 miles13
Forest Hills4.7 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 305472. 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.