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Orange Bend, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Leesburg East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34788. The Survey maps it on the Leesburg East quadrangle.

Orange Bend 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 Orange Bend, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Orange Bend, surveyed 1955

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

124 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Orange Bend between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,312 acres in total. 18 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.

Reported cause Fires
Railroad operations and maintenance31
Debris and open burning23
Natural18
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Equipment and vehicle use13
Arson/incendiarism11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
Smoking1

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
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTERRELL LN FIRE (35)
28 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHURRICANE (35)
19 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceGRAND ISLAND SHORES (35)
8 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 August 1993Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 August 2014Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWEDGEWOOD GROVE (35)
21 August 2007Arson/incendiarism2.1 acresFlorida Forest Service35/LAKE PINES FIRE/0996
19 August 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orange Bend in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 3 tornado, 1 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2008Tornado (EF0)Orange Bend$12,000A brief EF0 tornado touched down blowing down trees and damaging the roofs of two mobile homes.
August 2008Tornado (EF0)Orange Bend$12,000A brief EF0 tornado touched down blowing down trees and damaging the roofs of two mobile homes.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindOrange Bend$4,000HAM radio relayed report of downed trees and powerlines near the intersection of State Road 44 and Emeralda Dr.
June 2020Tornado (EF0)Orange Bend-Numerous photos and videos from trained spotters showed a brief tornado touchdown in the Emeralda Marsh Conservation Area just north of Lisbon. The tornado was on the ground less than one minute west of Emeralda Island Road between Lake Griffith and Lake Yale. The tornado produced no damage as it was over a marsh.
June 2020Funnel CloudOrange Bend-Lake County Sheriff's Office relayed report from public of a funnel cloud moving toward Silver Lake near the intersection of County Road 44 and Radio Road in Leesburg.

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
Lisbon0.8 miles12
Silver Lake1.3 miles12
Bassville Park2.1 miles12
Mid Florida Lakes2.2 miles12
Harbor Shores2.9 miles12
Grand Island4.0 miles14
Eldorado4.7 miles12
Sunnyside4.7 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295512. 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.

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.