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Lake Geneva, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Keystone Heights census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32656. The Survey maps it on the Keystone Heights quadrangle. It stands 135 feet above sea level.

Lake Geneva within Clay County

Then and now

1941 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 52 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 Geneva, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Lake Geneva, surveyed 1941

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

318 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 318 fires within 5 miles of Lake Geneva between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,492 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 25 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
Debris and open burning86
Railroad operations and maintenance67
Missing data/not specified/undetermined52
Equipment and vehicle use37
Arson/incendiarism25
Misuse of fire by a minor24
Natural14
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking3
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1

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
8 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service2003-07-1076
18 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHALL LAKE FIRE
17 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePUTNAM/BALL FIELD FIRE
9 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBASS BOAT FIRE 2006-07-0272
31 August 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 August 1996Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Lake Geneva: 4 producers, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Clay, Kaolin, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Clay Co Board of Co Comm. - Twin Lakes MineClayUnknown
Florida Rock Industries - Goldhead MineTitanium-Heavy MineralsProducerIlmenite, Leucoxene, Rutile, Zircon, Kyanite
Foremost Clay MineKaolinPast Producer
Gold Head MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Floirda Rock Industries - Grandin MineSandProducer
Florida Rock Industries, Inc. - GrandinSandProducer

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Geneva in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 2 heavy rain, 1 hail. 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
June 2018LightningLake Geneva1 hurt, $1,000,000A 67 year old male was struck by lightning on his front porch along Acadia Street in Keystone Heights, near Lake Geneva. The time of the event was based on lightning data. Shed was burned down which caused over $1M in damage to vintage cars and motorcycles.
July 2025LightningLake Geneva$2,000Lightning struck a tree and the discharge traveled along the ground and burnt down a nearby shed along Brush Hill Lane. A video was relayed via social media. Time was estimated by radar and the cost of damage was estimated for inclusion of the event in Storm Data.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindLake Geneva$2,000Trained spotter reported a damaging microburst with damage to tin roofs on a pump house and a chicken coop. The tin roofs were blown off and twisted. Two large branches from oak trees were snapped. Cost of damage was estimated.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindLake Geneva$1,500Large trees and power lines were blown down.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindLake Geneva$500A tin roof over a pump house was damaged and small tree limbs were snapped by thunderstorm winds. The cost of damage was estimated for the event to be included in StormData.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindLake Geneva$400Large trees were blown down.
September 2024Heavy RainLake Geneva-A personal weather station WB4EN - KFLLAKEG2 | measured 3.5 inches of rain. Rain began | around 445 PM. Surrounding sites measured 2 | to 3 inches.
January 2023Funnel CloudLake Geneva-A funnel cloud was observed over Lake Geneva.
July 2021Heavy RainLake Geneva-A mesonet site measured 4.11 inches of storm total rainfall.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindLake Geneva-Nine trees and power lines were blown down along Oak Drive.
June 1998HailLake Geneva-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Keystone Heights1.5 miles16
Loch Lommond2.0 miles16
Park of the Palms2.1 miles16
Belmore9.9 miles13
Kingsley Village13.8 miles17
Kingsley Beach14.3 miles13
Kingsley14.5 miles13
Penney Farms17.8 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.

Wikipedia article on Lake GenevaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6475928The 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 285243. 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.

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.