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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.

Lake Mary within Seminole 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 Mary, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Lake Mary, surveyed 1955

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

Population over time

2 figures

Lake 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.

YearPeople Change
201013,822
202016,798+2,976 (+22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

72 since 1992

Regional 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 maintenance52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
19 August 1998Railroad operations and maintenance20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceOUT THERE (03)
6 June 2000Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 June 1999Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 June 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 June 1998Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 June 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Seminole 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 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.

Every working recorded in Seminole County

Storms near this place

22 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2003LightningLake Mary1 killed, 2 hurtA 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 2004LightningLake Mary1 hurtA power company worker was injured by a lightning strike while working on power lines.
June 2005LightningLake Mary$150,000Two homes and a sport utility vehicle were heavily damaged by fire caused by lightning in lame Mary.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindLake Mary$100,000Thunderstorm winds damaged 4 houses and blew down trees in the Lake Mary area.
March 2022HailLake Mary-A trained spotter observed two inch hail in Lake Mary on Raccoon Street.
March 2022HailLake Mary-Several reports received from the public of ping pong ball sized hail in Lake Mary.
March 2022HailLake Mary-Public observed two inch hail in Lake Mary near the intersection of Minerva Lane and Greenford Drive.
May 2020HailLake Mary-The public reported two inch hail in Lake Mary.
May 2020HailLake Mary-The public reported two inch hail in Lake Mary near South Country Club Road.
March 2011Thunderstorm WindLake Mary-Trees downed onto five cars in the WOFL TV parking lot.
June 2008HailLake Mary-Nickel size hail fell at Lake Mary.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindLake Mary-Utility poles and power lines were blown down on 25th street.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindLake Mary-A tree was blown down on Casa Verde Boulevard.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindLake Mary-Trees were reported down in Lake Mary and Goldenrod.
April 2003HailLake Mary-no account filed
April 2002HailLake Mary-no account filed
August 2000HailLake Mary-no account filed
May 1999HailLake Mary-no account filed
July 1997HailLake Mary-no account filed
August 1997HailLake Mary-no account filed
July 1997HailLake Mary-no account filed
June 1996HailLake Mary-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Seminole 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
Crystal Lake Shores0.3 miles14
Evansdale0.7 miles15
Lake View0.8 miles15
Crystal Point0.9 miles14
Crystal Heights0.9 miles14
Fairlane Estates1.2 miles14
Greenbriar1.2 miles14
Elder Springs1.8 miles15

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 MaryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q989484The 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.