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Lake Apopka, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Apopka census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32703. The Survey maps it on the Winter Garden quadrangle.

Lake Apopka within Orange 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 Lake Apopka, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Lake Apopka, 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

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Lake Apopka between 1992 and 2019, burning about 391 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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 maintenance10
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Arson/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
27 September 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceJUNE BUG (48)
23 July 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCLARKE (48)
23 July 1996Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 July 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMEADOWS (48)
24 June 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceGUMBALL (04)
2 June 2000Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 May 1996Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Storms near this place

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Apopka in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2012: 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. 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
December 2012Tornado (EF0)Lake Apopka-A citizen videotaped a waterspout over Lake Apopka for several minutes as it moved northeast from near the center of the lake toward the northeast shore. A short time later, several citizens located a few miles northeast of the lake observed the waterspout move onshore and track across the rural Lake Apopka Restoration Area before dissipating.
June 2003Funnel CloudLake Apopka-Local law enforcement and the general public reported a funnel cloud over Lake Apopka.

Every storm recorded in Orange 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
Paradise Heights0.1 miles14
Fullers1.8 miles14
Clarcona2.5 miles15
Crown Point2.8 miles14
South Apopka3.1 miles13
Ocoee3.8 miles14
Apopka4.3 miles13
Piedmont4.6 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 299947. 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.