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Lakeshore Palms Travel Park, 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 33884. The Survey maps it on the Eloise quadrangle.

Lakeshore Palms Travel Park 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 Lakeshore Palms Travel Park, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Lakeshore Palms Travel Park, 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

177 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 177 fires within 5 miles of Lakeshore Palms Travel Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,139 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 10 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 maintenance44
Debris and open burning32
Equipment and vehicle use29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Natural19
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Arson/incendiarism10
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
5 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceGRAY (53)
17 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 1992Railroad operations and maintenance17 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 August 1999Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 August 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 August 1998Equipment and vehicle use25 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2002Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lakeshore Palms Travel Park: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Diatomite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed Diatomite DepositDiatomiteOccurrence
Unnamed Diatomite DepositDiatomiteProspect

Every working 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
Wahneta1.9 miles17
Cypress Gardens2.0 miles17
Eloise Woods2.6 miles12
Eloise3.0 miles17
Eagle Lake3.3 miles17
Lake Shipp Heights3.4 miles17
Tranquility Park3.9 miles12
Eastwood4.2 miles12

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 Q122541244The 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 2452830. 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.