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Lake Butler, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Southwest Orange census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34786. The Survey maps it on the Winter Garden quadrangle. 18,851 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Lake Butler 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 Butler, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Lake Butler, surveyed 1955

On record in Lake Butler

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Lake Butler grew from 15,400 to 18,851 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
201015,400
202018,851+3,451 (+22%)

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

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Lake Butler between 1992 and 2017, burning about 582 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 6 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 maintenance17
Natural7
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Debris and open burning1

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
21 August 2000Railroad operations and maintenance8.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 July 1998Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 July 2004Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSUMMERPORT KEY (4)
12 July 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 June 2001Natural115 acresFlorida Forest ServiceROLF
4 June 2000Natural125 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 June 1998Debris and open burning1.8 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 May 2014Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHAWKSTONE (48)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Windermere0.5 miles11
Summerport Beach1.5 miles11
Gotha2.0 miles14
Bay Hill2.7 miles11
Beulah2.8 miles14
Minorville (historical)3.5 miles14
Lake Cain Hills3.6 miles12
Harlem Heights4.3 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 Lake ButlerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2211304The 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 1853261. 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.