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Lake Cain Hills, Florida

12 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 32819. The Survey maps it on the Lake Jessamine quadrangle.

Lake Cain Hills 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 Cain Hills, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Lake Cain Hills, surveyed 1953

Compare 1953 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

69 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Lake Cain Hills between 1992 and 2017, burning about 7,842 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 12 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 maintenance24
Arson/incendiarism12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2
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
6 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1996Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 1993Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 August 1998Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWENDY'S (O4)
21 August 2000Railroad operations and maintenance8.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

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
Bay Hill2.3 miles11
Doctor Phillips2.5 miles12
Tangelo Park2.6 miles12
Oak Ridge2.9 miles12
Windermere3.2 miles11
Lake Butler3.6 miles14
Orlovista3.9 miles15
Gotha3.9 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.

Wikidata item Q122552509The 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 285223. 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.