Lake Mack Park, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Umatilla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32720. The Survey maps it on the Pine Lakes quadrangle.

Lake Mack Park within Lake 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 Mack Park, surveyed 1979

Topographic sheet of Lake Mack Park, surveyed 1955

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1955 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Pine Lakes quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1979 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

332 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 332 fires within 5 miles of Lake Mack Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,337 acres in total. 110 started naturally. 36 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
Natural	110
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	52
Arson/incendiarism	36
Equipment and vehicle use	35
Railroad operations and maintenance	34
Debris and open burning	34
Recreation and ceremony	18
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Other causes	2
Smoking	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
5 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	TOMAHAWK TRAIL (35)
5 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	National Forests in Florida	FERNANDEZ 14
4 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	35/BEAR LAKE FIRE/1050
20 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
17 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	50 acres	Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge	HOT TIME
16 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
8 August 2011	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	(35) CUMMER
8 August 2008	Natural	1.7 acres	National Forests in Florida	FERNANDEZ

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Forest Hills	1.1 miles	10
Fullerville	1.6 miles	10
Crows Bluff	2.8 miles	10
River Forest	2.9 miles	10
Pine Hills	2.9 miles	13
Florida Hills	3.0 miles	13
Lake Kathryn Heights	3.3 miles	10
Saint Francis	3.3 miles	10

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 Q122551998

The 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 305923. 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.