Crown Point, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Winter Garden-Ocoee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34787. It lies near Gator Island. The Survey maps it on the Winter Garden quadrangle.

Crown Point within Orange 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 Crown Point, surveyed 1979

Topographic sheet of Crown Point, 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
1956 USGS Winter Garden quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

40 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Crown Point between 1993 and 2020, burning about 236 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Arson/incendiarism	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Recreation and ceremony	1
Debris and open burning	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
23 July 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	CLARKE (48)
2 June 2000	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
6 May 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	WET BIRD (4)
3 May 1998	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
25 May 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
23 May 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	(04) MOSQUITO BAY
19 May 2020	Arson/incendiarism	6.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	MARSH REED (48)
28 April 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange 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
Fullers	1.0 miles	14
Ocoee	1.8 miles	14
Winter Garden	1.9 miles	14
Paradise Heights	2.7 miles	14
Lake Apopka	2.8 miles	14
Minorville (historical)	2.9 miles	14
Tildenville	3.0 miles	14
Beulah	3.7 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295230. 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.