Green Pond, Florida
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Lakeland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33868. The Survey maps it on the Rock Ridge quadrangle.
Then and now
1955 to 1979The 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 sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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
- 1957 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Rock Ridge quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1962 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Kissimmee quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
180 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 180 fires within 5 miles of Green Pond between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,580 acres in total. 38 started naturally. 28 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 41 |
| Natural | 38 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 28 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 26 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 |
| Debris and open burning | 19 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 35/HUNTING FIRE/0982 |
| 27 September 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 291 acres | Florida Forest Service | BIG BRUSH FIRE |
| 24 September 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | 40 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 24 September 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 20 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 406 acres | Florida Forest Service | WEST TRAIL (35) |
| 20 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Florida Forest Service | PINE(35) |
| 9 August 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 5 August 2010 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 53 OPEN GATE COMMAND |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rock Ridge | 2.0 miles | 11 | |
| Berry | 2.1 miles | 11 | |
| Poyner | 2.3 miles | 11 | |
| Withla | 2.7 miles | 11 | |
| Eva | 3.7 miles | 11 | |
| Polk City | 9.5 miles | 11 | |
| Orangedale | 10.4 miles | 12 | |
| Fox Town | 10.8 miles | 12 |
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 Green Pond | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5603081 | The 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 301376. 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.





