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Lake Shipp Heights, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Winter Haven-Auburndale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33880. The Survey maps it on the Eloise quadrangle.

Lake Shipp Heights within Polk County

Then and now

1955 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 33 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 Shipp Heights, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Lake Shipp Heights, surveyed 1955

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 17 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

196 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 196 fires within 5 miles of Lake Shipp Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,048 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 9 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
Railroad operations and maintenance58
Equipment and vehicle use32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Debris and open burning27
Misuse of fire by a minor19
Natural12
Arson/incendiarism9
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks2
Other causes1

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
8 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceGRAY (53)
30 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceKVILLE (53)
7 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 1993Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 August 1999Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk 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
Eloise0.4 miles17
Tranquility Park0.8 miles12
Eagle Lake1.4 miles17
Jan-Phyl Village1.9 miles13
Winter Haven1.9 miles12
Eloise Woods2.7 miles12
Inwood3.0 miles13
Cypress Gardens3.0 miles17

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 Q122598559The 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 301408. 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.