Confer, Florida

14 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 32784. The Survey maps it on the Umatilla quadrangle.

Confer 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 Confer, surveyed 1979

Topographic sheet of Confer, surveyed 1955

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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.

1955 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Umatilla quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1979 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

194 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 194 fires within 5 miles of Confer between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,770 acres in total. 43 started naturally. 24 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	43
Debris and open burning	38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	37
Arson/incendiarism	24
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Railroad operations and maintenance	13
Recreation and ceremony	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Smoking	3
Other causes	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
25 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	National Forests in Florida	NICOTOON
21 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	MILLS ST (35)
17 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	National Forests in Florida	LAKE DORR 38
14 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	National Forests in Florida	LAKE DORR
1 September 2000	Natural	9.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
9 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	National Forests in Florida	not named
6 August 1996	Natural	5.0 acres	National Forests in Florida	BLACKWATER 1
6 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	National Forests in Florida	HOTEL 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Confer: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Marion Sand Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Altoona	0.8 miles	14
Silver Beach Heights	0.9 miles	14
Umatilla	2.1 miles	14
Pittman	3.1 miles	14
Dalhousie Acres	3.7 miles	14
Dona Vista	4.8 miles	14
Johnsons Corner	5.6 miles	13
Paisley	5.7 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.

Wikidata item Q122598355

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 307799. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.