Morningside Park, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Orlando census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32809. The Survey maps it on the Lake Jessamine quadrangle.

Morningside Park within Orange County

Then and now

1953 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 26 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Morningside Park, surveyed 1979

Topographic sheet of Morningside Park, surveyed 1953

Compare 1953 against another survey:

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.

1953 USGS Lake Jessamine quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1955 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Kissimmee quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

100 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Morningside Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,122 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 18 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 maintenance	29
Arson/incendiarism	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Natural	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Debris and open burning	5
Smoking	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 1997	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
3 September 1996	Natural	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
28 September 2000	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
16 September 1993	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
7 August 1993	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
31 August 1998	Railroad operations and maintenance	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
29 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
26 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	WENDY'S (O4)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Sky Lake	1.3 miles	12
Oak Ridge	2.1 miles	12
Tangelo Park	2.2 miles	12
Taft	2.4 miles	13
Belle Isle	2.7 miles	13
Williamsburg	2.8 miles	12
Pine Castle	2.9 miles	13
Nela Isle Annex (historical)	3.5 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 287143. 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.