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.
Then and now
1955 to 1979The 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.


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.
Windermere Town Halllisted 1994 · 0.5 miles away
Cal Palmer Memorial Buildinglisted 1995 · 0.6 miles away
1890 Windermere Schoollisted 2003 · 0.7 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresLake 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 15,400 | |
| 2020 | 18,851 | +3,451 (+22%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 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.
- 1955 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Winter Garden quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
43 since 1992Regional 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 maintenance | 17 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 August 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 8.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 6 July 1998 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 13 July 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | SUMMERPORT KEY (4) |
| 12 July 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 6 June 2001 | Natural | 115 acres | Florida Forest Service | ROLF |
| 4 June 2000 | Natural | 125 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 15 June 1998 | Debris and open burning | 1.8 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 9 May 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | HAWKSTONE (48) |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windermere | 0.5 miles | 11 | |
| Summerport Beach | 1.5 miles | 11 | |
| Gotha | 2.0 miles | 14 | |
| Bay Hill | 2.7 miles | 11 | |
| Beulah | 2.8 miles | 14 | |
| Minorville (historical) | 3.5 miles | 14 | |
| Lake Cain Hills | 3.6 miles | 12 | |
| Harlem Heights | 4.3 miles | 14 |
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 Butler | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2211304 | 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 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.





