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Mid Florida Lakes, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Leesburg East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34788. It stands on Haynes Creek. The Survey maps it on the Leesburg East quadrangle.

Mid Florida Lakes 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 Mid Florida Lakes, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Mid Florida Lakes, 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

129 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Mid Florida Lakes between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,446 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 16 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 maintenance30
Debris and open burning24
Natural18
Arson/incendiarism16
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Equipment and vehicle use12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTERRELL LN FIRE (35)
28 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHURRICANE (35)
19 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceGRAND ISLAND SHORES (35)
29 August 1993Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 August 2014Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWEDGEWOOD GROVE (35)
21 August 2007Arson/incendiarism2.1 acresFlorida Forest Service35/LAKE PINES FIRE/0996
19 August 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida 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

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
Harbor Shores0.7 miles12
Bassville Park1.7 miles12
Lisbon1.8 miles12
Grand Island2.0 miles14
Orange Bend2.2 miles12
Silver Lake2.6 miles12
Fort Mason3.1 miles14
Mount Homer3.8 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 Q122563023The 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 1867175. 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.