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Crooked Lake Park, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Lake Wales census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33859. The Survey maps it on the Babson Park quadrangle. 1,893 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 125 feet above sea level.

Crooked Lake Park within Polk County

Then and now

1952 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 36 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Crooked Lake Park, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Crooked Lake Park, surveyed 1952

Population over time

3 figures

Crooked Lake Park grew from 1,682 to 1,893 between 2000 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
20001,682
20101,722+40 (+2%)
20201,893+171 (+10%)

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.

Fires near this place

226 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 226 fires within 5 miles of Crooked Lake Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,310 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 27 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 maintenance44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined44
Equipment and vehicle use43
Debris and open burning32
Arson/incendiarism27
Natural18
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Other causes2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2012Debris and open burning12 acresFlorida Forest ServiceGENESIS (53)
3 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceBRUSH PALLET
1 September 2015Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceFRUITVILLE AVE. (53)
1 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 1993Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Crooked Lake Park: 1 producer, 1 unknown, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Diatomite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed Diatomite ProspectDiatomiteProspect
Early Davis - Davis MineClayUnknown
Owl's Nest - Woodley Clay PitClayProducerClay

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crooked Lake Park in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2019: 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 1 injury. 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
December 2018Tornado (EF0)Crooked Lake Park1 hurt, $45,000Damage was found to the southeast side of a 4-unit duplex. The southeast unit sustained partial uplift of roofing material and broken windows on the east side of the building. Some roof damage extended to the the northeast unit as well. The building was built before the building code changes in the mid 1990s. Estimated damage including contents is $45,000.
August 2019Heavy RainCrooked Lake Park-Flooding was reported along Highway 27 near Presidents Drive and Lake Caloosa Landing. Several Cars were stalled in the flood waters.

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
Highland Park2.7 miles14
Hillcrest Heights2.9 miles14
Wolfolk3.2 miles15
Babson Park3.3 miles14
Lake Wales5.0 miles20
West Lake Wales5.4 miles17
Southern Pines Recreational Vehicle Park5.5 miles14
Floritan5.6 miles20

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 Crooked Lake ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2570565The 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 281075. 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.

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.