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Lane Park, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Tavares census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32778. It lies near Long Island. The Survey maps it on the Leesburg East quadrangle.

Lane Park within Lake 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 Lane Park, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Lane Park, surveyed 1955

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

98 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Lane Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,188 acres in total. 21 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 maintenance23
Natural21
Debris and open burning12
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony5
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
3 September 2001Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHURRICANE (35)
18 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service35/LAST RANCH FIRE/0865
5 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service35/MADISON/0857
21 August 2007Arson/incendiarism2.1 acresFlorida Forest Service35/LAKE PINES FIRE/0996
20 August 2000Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 August 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake 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 Lane Park: 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand. 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
Astatula Sand MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Florida Rock Industries, Inc - Astatula MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lane Park in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2015Thunderstorm WindLane Park-The sheet metal roof was peeled off a clubhouse on Country Club Drive along the shore of Little Lake Harris. Additional minor damage occurred to a tree in front of the building. The information was relayed by local media.

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
Ellsworth Junction1.8 miles12
Tavares2.8 miles12
Yalaha3.6 miles11
Howey-in-the-Hills3.9 miles11
Eldorado3.9 miles12
Astatula4.5 miles13
Sunnyside4.5 miles12
Bassville Park4.8 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 285332. 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.