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Holiday Manor, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Haines City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33844. The Survey maps it on the Gum Lake quadrangle.

Holiday Manor within Polk 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 Holiday Manor, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Holiday Manor, surveyed 1955

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

114 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Holiday Manor between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,887 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 7 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 maintenance23
Debris and open burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use16
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony1
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
30 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFlorida Forest Service53 GONZO
15 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 August 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCUTTHROAT (53)
3 July 2001Debris and open burning100 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 July 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 July 1992Railroad operations and maintenance8.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceKUDER ROAD (53)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Holiday Manor: 4 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand, Peat. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working 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
Lake Hammock Village3.2 miles12
Davenport4.5 miles12
Haines City4.8 miles13
Lake Alfred5.0 miles12
Lucerne Park5.4 miles12
Lynchburg6.1 miles13
Polk City7.5 miles11
Poinsettia Park7.8 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 284148. 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.