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Lake Pickett, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the East Orange census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32820. The Survey maps it on the Bithlo quadrangle.

Lake Pickett within Orange County

Then and now

1953 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 26 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 Pickett, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Lake Pickett, surveyed 1953

Compare 1953 against another survey:

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

278 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 278 fires within 5 miles of Lake Pickett between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,869 acres in total. 81 started naturally. 37 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
Natural81
Equipment and vehicle use49
Railroad operations and maintenance45
Arson/incendiarism37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Debris and open burning19
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Recreation and ceremony6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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
6 September 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 September 2013Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceCOLONIAL (48)
8 August 2018Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSWEET LEAF (48)
6 August 2000Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 August 1999Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 August 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Storms near this place

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Pickett in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 5 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
May 2025Tornado (EF0)Lake Pickett$8,000Broadcast media relayed video of a brief waterspout over a lake in the Waterford Lakes area. The spout was very brief, but did move onshore, causing minor roof damage to shingles.
May 2025Funnel CloudLake Pickett-Public observed funnel cloud looking south about 5 miles from his location which had dissipated just prior to the report.
February 2024HailLake Pickett-Public report of quarter size hail near East Lake Elementary School, northeast of the University of Central Florida.
April 2017HailLake Pickett-A CoCoRaHS observer (FL-OR-23) north of Bithlo, near Lake Pickett, observed walnut sized hail.
March 2012HailLake Pickett-A public citizen observed hail up to penny sized in diameter near Lake Pickett.
March 2011HailLake Pickett-Penny size hail on Chuluota Road in Bithlo.
June 2008HailLake Pickett-Golfball size hail was reported near Bithlo.

Every storm recorded in Orange 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
Lockwood2.4 miles13
Bithlo2.6 miles14
University Park5.0 miles13
Alafaya5.2 miles13
Christmas6.6 miles14
Wedgefield7.5 miles13
Union Park9.0 miles14
Tala Apopka (historical)9.2 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 299951. 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.

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.