Mount Dora, Florida
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Mount Dora census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32757. It lies near Sunset Valley. The Survey maps it on the Eustis quadrangle. 16,341 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 184 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1955 to 1979The 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.


On record in Mount Dora
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 6 records
Blandfordlisted 2007
Donnelly Houselisted 1975
Lakeside Innlisted 1987
Mount Dora A. C. L. Railroad Station, Oldlisted 1992
Mount Dora Historic Districtlisted 2009
Witherspoon Lodge No. 111 Free and Accepted Masons (F&AM)listed 2009
Population over time
2 figuresMount Dora grew from 12,370 to 16,341 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 12,370 | |
| 2020 | 16,341 | +3,971 (+32%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1955 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Eustis quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1979 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
90 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Mount Dora between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,532 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 13 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 | 34 |
| Debris and open burning | 14 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 13 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 September 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 30 August 1993 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 13 August 2012 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | SHIRLEY SHORES(35) |
| 9 July 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 8 July 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 7.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 7 July 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 60 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 16 July 2016 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | SHIRLEY SHORES (35) |
| 23 June 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | TREETOP (04) |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Mount Dora: 1 producer, 1 prospect, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand, Diatomite, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Codding Sand and Soil Co. - Codding Pit | Sand | Producer | ||
| Coddings Sand and Sail Inc. | Clay | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Diatomite Deposit | Diatomite | Prospect |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dublin | 1.3 miles | 12 | |
| Oakland Park | 1.7 miles | 12 | |
| Mount Homer | 3.5 miles | 12 | |
| Lake Jem | 4.1 miles | 13 | |
| Eustis | 4.1 miles | 12 | |
| Sorrento | 4.3 miles | 13 | |
| Tavares | 4.3 miles | 12 | |
| Seneca | 5.0 miles | 13 |
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 Mount Dora | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q990910 | The 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 287215. 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.





