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Howey Height, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Clermont census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34715. It lies near Sugarloaf Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Astatula quadrangle.

Howey Height 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 Howey Height, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Howey Height, surveyed 1955

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

141 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Howey Height between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,191 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 4 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 maintenance31
Equipment and vehicle use29
Debris and open burning26
Natural20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Smoking9
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks1
Other causes1

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
5 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service35/MADISON/0857
20 August 2000Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 August 1993Natural15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 August 2011Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceREVELS (35)
6 July 1998Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 July 2002Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 June 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 June 1998Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake 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 Howey Height: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand. 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
Florida Crushed Stone Co. - Pine Needle MineSandProducer

Every working 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
Clay Island1.9 miles13
Astatula3.0 miles13
Orange Blossom3.3 miles11
Ferndale3.4 miles13
Howey-in-the-Hills4.2 miles11
Montverde5.5 miles13
Pumpkin Center6.3 miles11
Minneola6.4 miles13

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 Q122552060The 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 295363. 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.