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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.

Lake Como within Putnam County

Then and now

1954 to 1994

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Lake Como, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Lake Como, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

141 since 1996

Regional 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/undetermined33
Debris and open burning33
Natural29
Arson/incendiarism15
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Other causes4
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking1

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
19 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceLONGTREE ST.54)
17 September 2013Other causesunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMARLIN (54)
30 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined194 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 August 1999Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 August 2005Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service2005-08-0500/PUTNAM
9 July 2013Natural7.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCOMMANDER (54)
4 July 1998Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Putnam County

Storms near this place

4 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2003WildfireLake Como1 hurtCoals 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 2018Thunderstorm WindLake Como-A tree was blown down across the road at County Road 308 and Georgetown Shortcut Road.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindLake Como-Several trees were blown down in Crescent City.
July 1996Thunderstorm WindLake Como-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Putnam 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
Pomona Park1.5 miles16
Huntington3.2 miles10
Sisco3.9 miles17
Mount Royal4.6 miles10
Crescent City5.0 miles10
Crescent City Station5.2 miles10
Welaka5.2 miles11
Fruitland5.4 miles11

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 ComoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6475431The 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.