Mountain Lake Station, Florida

The same ground, surveyed 36 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1952 1988

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 within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Lake of the Hills Community Clublisted 2000 · 0.4 miles away
• Chalet Suzannelisted 1990 · 0.6 miles away
• Mountain Lake Colony Houselisted 1991 · 0.9 miles away

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.

• 1952 USGS Lake Wales quadrangle1:24000, 9 printings
• 1956 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1978 USGS Bartow quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1988 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Mountain Lake Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 750 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 11 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Lake of the Hills
• Waverly
• Dundee
• Cypress Gardens
• Eastwood
• Eloise Woods

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Mountain Lake Station: 6 producers, 3 unknowns, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Diatomite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Polk County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 287372. 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.