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.
Then and now
1952 to 1988The 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.


Population over time
3 figuresCrooked 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,682 | |
| 2010 | 1,722 | +40 (+2%) |
| 2020 | 1,893 | +171 (+10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1952 USGS Babson Park quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1978 USGS Bartow quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
226 since 1992Regional 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 maintenance | 44 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 44 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 43 |
| Debris and open burning | 32 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 27 |
| Natural | 18 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 3 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Florida Forest Service | GENESIS (53) |
| 3 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 12 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | BRUSH PALLET |
| 1 September 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | FRUITVILLE AVE. (53) |
| 1 September 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 9 August 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 29 August 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Diatomite Prospect | Diatomite | Prospect | ||
| Early Davis - Davis Mine | Clay | Unknown | ||
| Owl's Nest - Woodley Clay Pit | Clay | Producer | Clay |
Storms near this place
2 since 2018Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Crooked Lake Park | 1 hurt, $45,000 | Damage 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 2019 | Heavy Rain | Crooked Lake Park | - | Flooding was reported along Highway 27 near Presidents Drive and Lake Caloosa Landing. Several Cars were stalled in the flood waters. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Highland Park | 2.7 miles | 14 | |
| Hillcrest Heights | 2.9 miles | 14 | |
| Wolfolk | 3.2 miles | 15 | |
| Babson Park | 3.3 miles | 14 | |
| Lake Wales | 5.0 miles | 20 | |
| West Lake Wales | 5.4 miles | 17 | |
| Southern Pines Recreational Vehicle Park | 5.5 miles | 14 | |
| Floritan | 5.6 miles | 20 |
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 Park | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2570565 | 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 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.





