Lake Como, Florida
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Crescent City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32157. The Survey maps it on the Crescent City quadrangle. It stands 69 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1954 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 40 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1954 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1954 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Crescent City quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1978 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Crescent City quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
141 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Lake Como between 1996 and 2020, burning about 1,136 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 15 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 33 |
| Debris and open burning | 33 |
| Natural | 29 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 15 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Other causes | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | LONGTREE ST.54) |
| 17 September 2013 | Other causes | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | MARLIN (54) |
| 30 August 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 194 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 3 August 1999 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 28 August 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 19 August 2005 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 2005-08-0500/PUTNAM |
| 9 July 2013 | Natural | 7.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | COMMANDER (54) |
| 4 July 1998 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Como in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2018: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 wildfire. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2003 | Wildfire | Lake Como | 1 hurt | Coals dumped from a burn barrel ignited a fire which was exacerbated by high winds and dry conditions. Fire endangered three homes in Lake Crescent Estates and caused the closure of Highway 17. One Crescent Lakes Estates resident was treated at an area hospital for smoke inhalation. Fire was declared a five alarm fire with mutual aid requested from several neighboring fire departments, and burned approximately thirty acres. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Como | - | A tree was blown down across the road at County Road 308 and Georgetown Shortcut Road. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Como | - | Several trees were blown down in Crescent City. |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Como | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pomona Park | 1.5 miles | 16 | |
| Huntington | 3.2 miles | 10 | |
| Sisco | 3.9 miles | 17 | |
| Mount Royal | 4.6 miles | 10 | |
| Crescent City | 5.0 miles | 10 | |
| Crescent City Station | 5.2 miles | 10 | |
| Welaka | 5.2 miles | 11 | |
| Fruitland | 5.4 miles | 11 |
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 Como | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6475431 | 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 285227. 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.





