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Lake Hammock Village, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Haines City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33844. The Survey maps it on the Gum Lake quadrangle.

Lake Hammock Village within Polk County

Then and now

1955 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 24 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 Hammock Village, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Lake Hammock Village, surveyed 1955

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

138 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Lake Hammock Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,669 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 8 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 maintenance31
Debris and open burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use19
Natural15
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes1
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
23 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBANNON (53)
15 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 August 1999Natural10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 August 1998Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceBANNON ISLAND PILE (53)
3 July 2001Debris and open burning100 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 July 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk 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 Hammock Village: 3 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Diatomite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Peat. 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
E.R. Jahna Industries - Haines City MineSandProducer
Haines City MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sunshine Peat - Sunshine MinePeatUnknownPeat
Unnamed Diatomite ProsectDiatomiteProspect
Irby Oaks Fill and Clay - Oaks MineClayUnknown
Scanamerican Holdings - Green Valley Soil MineClayUnknown

Every working recorded in Polk 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
Haines City1.6 miles13
Holiday Manor3.2 miles12
Davenport3.3 miles12
Lucerne Park3.5 miles12
Lake Alfred4.8 miles12
Lake Hamilton5.7 miles12
Poinsettia Park6.0 miles12
Lynchburg6.5 miles13

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 Q122557473The 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 2449285. 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.