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Orange Blossom Hills South, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Fruitland Park-Lady Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32159. The Survey maps it on the Lady Lake quadrangle.

Orange Blossom Hills South 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 Blossom Hills South, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Orange Blossom Hills South, surveyed 1955

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

72 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Orange Blossom Hills South between 1992 and 2020, burning about 573 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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 maintenance27
Debris and open burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
7 September 2007Debris and open burning4.0 acresFlorida Forest Service60/PELZER/1060
24 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenance2.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 1993Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHIGHWAY 42 (42)
4 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 August 1997Debris and open burning50 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 August 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service35/WOODGATE FIRE/0994

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Orange Blossom Hills South: 3 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Peat. 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 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
Recreation Plantation Resort0.9 miles13
Conant1.3 miles13
Lady Lake1.5 miles13
Carlton Village3.3 miles13
Fruitland Park5.1 miles14
Montclair7.5 miles14
Whitney7.7 miles14
Leesburg8.9 miles14

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.

Wikidata item Q122555743The 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 295513. 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.