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Dona Vista, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Umatilla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32784. The Survey maps it on the Umatilla quadrangle.

Dona Vista within Lake 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 Dona Vista, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Dona Vista, 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.

Fires near this place

134 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of Dona Vista between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,008 acres in total. 24 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
Debris and open burning28
Railroad operations and maintenance26
Natural24
Equipment and vehicle use18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism10
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
21 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMILLS ST (35)
19 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceGRAND ISLAND SHORES (35)
1 September 2000Natural9.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 August 1992Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 August 1993Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 August 2002Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 August 2014Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWEDGEWOOD GROVE (35)
17 August 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dona Vista in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2017: 2 funnel cloud. 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
January 2017Funnel CloudDona Vista-A trained weather spotter observed a funnel cloud near Cassia, moving northeast. The funnel cloud dissipated about 5 minutes after first being observed.
September 2010Funnel CloudDona Vista-A trained storm spotter observed funnel cloud formation over rural Lake County, about 10 miles northwest of his location.

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
Fort Mason1.4 miles14
Grand Island2.4 miles14
Umatilla2.7 miles14
Eustis2.9 miles12
Dalhousie Acres3.1 miles14
Harbor Shores3.6 miles12
Silver Beach Heights4.2 miles14
Mid Florida Lakes4.3 miles12

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.

Wikidata item Q122597844The 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 305589. 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.

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.