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Montverde, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Clermont census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34756. It lies near Smiths Island. The Survey maps it on the Clermont East quadrangle. 1,655 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 108 feet above sea level.

Montverde 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 Montverde, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Montverde, surveyed 1955

On record in Montverde

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Montverde grew from 1,463 to 1,655 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,463
20201,655+192 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

132 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Montverde between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,397 acres in total. 9 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
Equipment and vehicle use33
Railroad operations and maintenance29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning14
Smoking10
Arson/incendiarism9
Natural9
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
20 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 1996Debris and open burning42 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 August 1993Natural15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 August 1993Natural15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2000Railroad operations and maintenance2.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 July 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 July 2006Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Service35-TURKEY FARM-0725
6 June 2000Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Montverde: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Clermont MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Highway PitClayProducer
E.R. Jahna Industries - Clermont MineSandProducer
Florida Crushed Stone Co. - Pine Needle MineSandProducer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Montverde in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
September 2023Heavy RainMontverde-Orange County Fire Rescue reported heavy rain at a construction area washed dirt across the Florida Turnpike near mile marker 272, stranding several vehicles.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindMontverde-Lake County Emergency Management reported numerous trees down across the east side of Clermont; including at Old Highway 50 and County Road 455, Hartwood Marsh Road and Sadler Court, and the Magnolia Point Subdivision. Additional minor debris littered the roadways across Hartwood Marsh Road. The heaviest damage was reported to be off Lake Boulevard and Highway 50 near the Lake and Orange County line. Winds were estimated near 60 mph.

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
Waits Junction2.1 miles13
Ferndale2.2 miles13
Montverde Junction2.7 miles13
Reavills Corner2.8 miles13
Skytop3.2 miles13
Roan3.3 miles13
Mohawk3.5 miles13
Castle Hill3.8 miles13

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.

Wikipedia article on MontverdeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2092516The 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 287081. 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.