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Indian Lake Estates, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Lake Wales census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33898. The Survey maps it on the Lake Weohyakapka quadrangle. 926 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 69 feet above sea level.

Indian Lake Estates within Polk County

Then and now

1952 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 36 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Indian Lake Estates, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Indian Lake Estates, surveyed 1952

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

307 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 307 fires within 5 miles of Indian Lake Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 18,268 acres in total. 147 started naturally. 44 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
Natural147
Arson/incendiarism44
Railroad operations and maintenance35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Equipment and vehicle use18
Debris and open burning18
Recreation and ceremony7
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 September 2001Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2000Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2009Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service53 DELAND
21 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLAKE LIZZIE 7 (53)
14 September 2015Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceDELAND (53)
9 August 2015Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePARKING (53)
9 August 2012Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceGALLBERRY (53)
8 August 1999Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Fedhaven3.5 miles15
Nalcrest3.9 miles15
Hesperides6.5 miles15
Babson Park7.7 miles14
Alcoma7.9 miles15
Hillcrest Heights8.1 miles14
Frostproof9.3 miles16
Cacema Town (historical)10.0 miles14

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 Indian Lake EstatesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16892643The 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 295792. 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.