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Lake Kathryn Heights, Florida

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Umatilla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32767. The Survey maps it on the Lake Woodruff quadrangle.

Lake Kathryn Heights within Lake County

Then and now

1954 to 1999

The same ground, surveyed 45 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 Kathryn Heights, surveyed 1999
Topographic sheet of Lake Kathryn Heights, 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

327 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 327 fires within 5 miles of Lake Kathryn Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,972 acres in total. 116 started naturally. 39 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
Natural116
Missing data/not specified/undetermined56
Arson/incendiarism39
Debris and open burning34
Equipment and vehicle use27
Railroad operations and maintenance23
Recreation and ceremony19
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking1
Other causes1
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
5 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresNational Forests in Floridanot named
4 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service35/BEAR LAKE FIRE/1050
20 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2001Debris and open burning6.0 acresNational Forests in FloridaALEXANDER SPRINGS WI
19 September 2016Naturalunder an acreNational Forests in FloridaCAMPGROUND
8 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNational Forests in FloridaPAISLEY
5 August 2006Natural7.5 acresFlorida Forest Service35/HELICOPTER FIRE/0854
4 August 2006Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service40

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake 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
Lake Kathryn0.2 miles10
Fullerville1.9 miles10
Chain O'Lakes2.4 miles13
Blue Lakes Ridge3.0 miles13
Lake Mack Park3.3 miles13
Forest Hills3.4 miles10
Paisley3.5 miles13
Mosquito Grove3.8 miles10

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 Q122539291The 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 305921. 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.