Lake Forest, Florida

The same ground, surveyed 47 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1947 1994

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.

• 1947 USGS North Miami quadrangle1:24000
• 1950 USGS North Miami quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1958 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS North Miami quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1981 USGS Miami quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000
• 1988 USGS North Miami quadrangle1:24000
• 1994 USGS North Miami quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Lake Forest between 1993 and 2018, burning about 107 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Carver Ranches
• Pembroke Park
• West Park
• Hallandale Beach
• Hollywood Ridge Farms
• Miami Gardens

Every fire recorded in Broward County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Lake Forest: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Broward County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 285235. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.