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Lincoln Park, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Bushnell-Center Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33513. The Survey maps it on the Bushnell quadrangle.

Lincoln Park within Sumter 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 Lincoln Park, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Lincoln Park, surveyed 1955

On record in Lincoln Park

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

73 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Lincoln Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 450 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning21
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
15 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service747(60)
23 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresFlorida Forest Service609A (60)
28 June 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service60/OAK TREE FIRE/0779
26 June 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service60/BATTLEFIELD FIRE/0768
15 June 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 May 2017Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePOTTING SOIL (60)
29 May 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service60/722 FIRE-0657
28 May 1994Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter 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
Carver0.4 miles15
Bushnell0.8 miles15
Bevilles Corner2.9 miles15
Saint Catherine3.4 miles14
Webster4.1 miles13
Oak Grove5.0 miles13
Wahoo5.3 miles13
Bucker Womans Town (historical)6.1 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 285549. 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.