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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.

Lake Buena Vista within Orange County

Then and now

1953 to 1979

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Lake Buena Vista, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Lake Buena Vista, surveyed 1953

Compare 1953 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Lake 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.

YearPeople Change
201010
202024+14 (+140%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

85 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural28
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Arson/incendiarism14
Equipment and vehicle use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Fireworks5
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
18 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2013Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServicePALM PARKWAY (48)
19 August 2007Arson/incendiarism11 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCLUSTER (04)
15 August 1998Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 August 2010Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWIPER (O4)
1 August 1999Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceABANDON (O4)
6 July 1998Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 1994HailLake Buena Vista-Severe thunderstorms produce dime-size-hail and blew down numerous trees in southwest Orange County.

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
Bay Lake1.5 miles11
Buena Vista1.7 miles13
Vineland1.9 miles11
Doctor Phillips4.6 miles12
Bay Hill5.3 miles11
Williamsburg5.3 miles12
Tangelo Park6.5 miles12
Hunters Creek6.6 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.

Wikipedia article on Lake Buena VistaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2154539The 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.