Lake Buena Vista, Florida
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Southwest Orange census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32836. The Survey maps it on the Windermere quadrangle. 24 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 95 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1953 to 1979The same ground, surveyed 26 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Population over time
2 figuresLake Buena Vista grew from 10 to 24 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 10 | |
| 2020 | 24 | +14 (+140%) |
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.
- 1953 USGS Windermere quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Kissimmee quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
85 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Lake Buena Vista between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,735 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 14 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 28 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 15 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Fireworks | 5 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 September 1997 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 1 September 2013 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | PALM PARKWAY (48) |
| 19 August 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 11 acres | Florida Forest Service | CLUSTER (04) |
| 15 August 1998 | Natural | 20 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 1 August 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | WIPER (O4) |
| 1 August 1999 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 9 July 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | ABANDON (O4) |
| 6 July 1998 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Buena Vista in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1994 | Hail | Lake Buena Vista | - | Severe thunderstorms produce dime-size-hail and blew down numerous trees in southwest 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bay Lake | 1.5 miles | 11 | |
| Buena Vista | 1.7 miles | 13 | |
| Vineland | 1.9 miles | 11 | |
| Doctor Phillips | 4.6 miles | 12 | |
| Bay Hill | 5.3 miles | 11 | |
| Williamsburg | 5.3 miles | 12 | |
| Tangelo Park | 6.5 miles | 12 | |
| Hunters Creek | 6.6 miles | 13 |
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 Lake Buena Vista | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2154539 | 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 302708. 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.





