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Cypress Lakes, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the West Palm Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33417. The Survey maps it on the Palm Beach quadrangle. 1,468 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Cypress Lakes within Palm Beach County

Then and now

1946 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 41 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 Lakes, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Cypress Lakes, surveyed 1946

Compare 1946 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Cypress Lakes between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,294 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 2 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 maintenance12
Natural9
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
25 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 July 2003Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceOKEECHOBEE COMMAND
23 July 1993Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 July 2000Natural25 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 July 2003Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service47TH ST COMMAND
15 July 2004Natural300 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTHE WATER CATCHMENT FIRE
11 July 2004Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHAVERHILL COMMAND
26 June 2015Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTYLER LAKE ( 50 )

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Palm Beach 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 Lakes: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Okeechobee PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Palm Beach 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
Lakeside Green0.9 miles16
Schall Circle0.9 miles16
Military Park0.9 miles16
Century Village1.0 miles14
Stacey Street2.0 miles16
West Gate2.2 miles16
Gramercy Park2.4 miles14
Haverhill2.5 miles16

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 LakesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2594386The 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 1867133. 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.