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Cypress Lake, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Fort Myers census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33919. The Survey maps it on the Fort Myers SW quadrangle. 13,727 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.

Cypress Lake within Lee County

Then and now

1956 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 31 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 Lake, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Cypress Lake, surveyed 1956

Population over time

3 figures

Cypress Lake grew from 12,072 to 13,727 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
200012,072
201011,846-226 (-2%)
202013,727+1,881 (+16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

105 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Cypress Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 514 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 15 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
Natural25
Railroad operations and maintenance22
Arson/incendiarism15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use10
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Recreation and ceremony5
Debris and open burning3
Fireworks2
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
10 September 1997Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 August 2012Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCORRECTION (36)
15 August 1995Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2020Fireworks10 acresFlorida Forest ServiceDOMESTIC AVE (36)
3 July 2001Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 July 1999Railroad operations and maintenance7.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 July 1994Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 July 1998Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee 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 Cypress Lake: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Estero QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Lee 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
Biggar1.3 miles15
McGregor1.8 miles15
Villas1.8 miles14
Harlem Heights2.1 miles15
Whiskey Creek2.4 miles15
Fort Myers Villas2.5 miles14
Pine Manor2.6 miles15
Cape Coral3.2 miles15

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 LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1148244The 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 1867132. 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.