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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.

Mount Dora 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 Mount Dora, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Mount Dora, surveyed 1955

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

Population over time

2 figures

Mount 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.

YearPeople Change
201012,370
202016,341+3,971 (+32%)

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

90 since 1992

Regional 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 maintenance34
Debris and open burning14
Arson/incendiarism13
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
18 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 August 1993Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 August 2012Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSHIRLEY SHORES(35)
9 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 July 1995Railroad operations and maintenance7.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2000Railroad operations and maintenance60 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 July 2016Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSHIRLEY SHORES (35)
23 June 2007Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTREETOP (04)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Codding Sand and Soil Co. - Codding PitSandProducer
Coddings Sand and Sail Inc.ClayUnknown
Unnamed Diatomite DepositDiatomiteProspect

Every working 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
Dublin1.3 miles12
Oakland Park1.7 miles12
Mount Homer3.5 miles12
Lake Jem4.1 miles13
Eustis4.1 miles12
Sorrento4.3 miles13
Tavares4.3 miles12
Seneca5.0 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 Mount DoraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q990910The 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.