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Cypress Gardens, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Winter Haven-Auburndale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33884. The Survey maps it on the Eloise quadrangle. 10,169 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 167 feet above sea level.

Cypress Gardens within Polk County

Then and now

1955 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 33 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cypress Gardens, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Cypress Gardens, surveyed 1955

On record in Cypress Gardens

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

3 figures

Cypress Gardens grew from 8,844 to 10,169 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
20008,844
20108,917+73 (+1%)
202010,169+1,252 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 17 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

162 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 162 fires within 5 miles of Cypress Gardens between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,059 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 10 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 maintenance40
Debris and open burning28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Equipment and vehicle use20
Natural19
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Arson/incendiarism10
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1

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 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceGRAY (53)
17 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 August 1999Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 August 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2002Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 August 1998Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 July 1992Natural40 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Cypress Gardens: 3 prospects, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Diatomite, Peat. 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
Green Leaf Products - Dundee PeatPeatProducerPeat
Unnamed Diatomate ProspectDiatomiteProspect
Unnamed Diatomite DepositDiatomiteOccurrence
Unnamed Diatomite ProsectDiatomiteProspect
Unnamed Diatomite ProspectDiatomiteProspect

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cypress Gardens in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2022: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2011Thunderstorm WindCypress Gardens$2,000Two large trees were uprooted at an apartment complex.
June 2022HailCypress Gardens-Amateur radio operator reported golf ball size hail near Cypress Gardens in Polk County.
March 2001HailCypress Gardens-Nickel to dime sized hail was reported by Skywarn Spotters and Ham Radio operators from Winter Haven to one mile north of Cypress Gardens.
March 2003HailCypress Gardens-no account filed

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
Eloise Woods0.7 miles12
Lakeshore Palms Travel Park2.0 miles17
Eastwood2.3 miles12
Eloise2.5 miles17
Lake Shipp Heights3.0 miles17
Winter Haven3.0 miles12
Tranquility Park3.1 miles12
Wahneta3.4 miles17

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 Cypress GardensAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1845155The 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 281211. 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.