Lake Mary, Florida
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Sanford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32746. The Survey maps it on the Sanford quadrangle. 16,798 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 620 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1955 to 1979The 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.


On record in Lake Mary
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Lake Mary Chamber of Commerce Buildinglisted 2004
Population over time
2 figuresLake Mary grew from 13,822 to 16,798 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 13,822 | |
| 2020 | 16,798 | +2,976 (+22%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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
- 1965 USGS Sanford quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1979 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
72 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Lake Mary between 1992 and 2016, burning about 562 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was 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 maintenance | 52 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 August 1998 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 20 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 19 August 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 13 August 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | OUT THERE (03) |
| 6 June 2000 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 4 June 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 3 June 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 3 June 1998 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 24 June 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Lake Mary: 5 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cds Trucking Corporation - Club Ii Mine | Clay | Unknown | ||
| Dot Oviedo - Oviedo #1 Mine | Sand | Unknown | ||
| Marquette Shores, Inc. - Marquette Shores Mine | Sand | Unknown | ||
| White Construction Co. - S.R. 427 Mine | Sand | Producer | ||
| White Construction Company, Inc. - Fdot Mine | Sand | Unknown | ||
| White Construction Company, Inc. - Pineway Mine | Sand | Unknown |
Storms near this place
22 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Mary in 22 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 14 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 lightning. The reports record 1 death and 3 injuries. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2003 | Lightning | Lake Mary | 1 killed, 2 hurt | A 22 year old man was killed by lightning while fishing under a gazebo at the end of a short pier in a lake. Two teen age boys who were also in the gazebo when the lightning struck were injured. |
| June 2004 | Lightning | Lake Mary | 1 hurt | A power company worker was injured by a lightning strike while working on power lines. |
| June 2005 | Lightning | Lake Mary | $150,000 | Two homes and a sport utility vehicle were heavily damaged by fire caused by lightning in lame Mary. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Mary | $100,000 | Thunderstorm winds damaged 4 houses and blew down trees in the Lake Mary area. |
| March 2022 | Hail | Lake Mary | - | A trained spotter observed two inch hail in Lake Mary on Raccoon Street. |
| March 2022 | Hail | Lake Mary | - | Several reports received from the public of ping pong ball sized hail in Lake Mary. |
| March 2022 | Hail | Lake Mary | - | Public observed two inch hail in Lake Mary near the intersection of Minerva Lane and Greenford Drive. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Lake Mary | - | The public reported two inch hail in Lake Mary. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Lake Mary | - | The public reported two inch hail in Lake Mary near South Country Club Road. |
| March 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Mary | - | Trees downed onto five cars in the WOFL TV parking lot. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Lake Mary | - | Nickel size hail fell at Lake Mary. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Mary | - | Utility poles and power lines were blown down on 25th street. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Mary | - | A tree was blown down on Casa Verde Boulevard. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Mary | - | Trees were reported down in Lake Mary and Goldenrod. |
| April 2003 | Hail | Lake Mary | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Lake Mary | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Lake Mary | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Lake Mary | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Lake Mary | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Lake Mary | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Lake Mary | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Lake Mary | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crystal Lake Shores | 0.3 miles | 14 | |
| Evansdale | 0.7 miles | 15 | |
| Lake View | 0.8 miles | 15 | |
| Crystal Point | 0.9 miles | 14 | |
| Crystal Heights | 0.9 miles | 14 | |
| Fairlane Estates | 1.2 miles | 14 | |
| Greenbriar | 1.2 miles | 14 | |
| Elder Springs | 1.8 miles | 15 |
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 Mary | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q989484 | 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 285263. 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.





