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Paisley, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Umatilla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32767. The Survey maps it on the Paisley quadrangle. 980 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 72 feet above sea level.

Paisley 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 Paisley, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Paisley, surveyed 1955

Population over time

3 figures

Paisley grew from 734 to 980 between 2000 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
2000734
2010818+84 (+11%)
2020980+162 (+20%)

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

248 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 248 fires within 5 miles of Paisley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,190 acres in total. 85 started naturally. 36 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
Natural85
Missing data/not specified/undetermined50
Arson/incendiarism36
Debris and open burning26
Railroad operations and maintenance16
Equipment and vehicle use13
Recreation and ceremony10
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Fireworks1

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 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresNational Forests in Floridanot named
19 September 2016Naturalunder an acreNational Forests in FloridaCAMPGROUND
12 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.1 acresNational Forests in FloridaMAPLE GROVE
8 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNational Forests in FloridaPAISLEY
6 August 1996Natural5.0 acresNational Forests in FloridaBLACKWATER 1
6 August 1996Naturalunder an acreNational Forests in FloridaHOTEL 2
4 August 2009Natural2.5 acresFlorida Forest Service35/LEEWARD ROAD FIRE/0856
31 August 2001Natural15 acresNational Forests in FloridaSHOCKLEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paisley in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2018: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
July 2006Tornado (F0)Paisley$70,000A waterspout touched down in the St. Johns River along Highway 44 east of Paisley. It quickly made landfall near a marina on the Lake County side of the river. It destroyed a pontoon boat and severly damaged eight others.
June 2018HailPaisley-A member of the public reported penny-sized hail in Paisley.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindPaisley-Thunderstorms winds blew down a large tree in Paisley.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindPaisley-Thunderstorm winds swept across northern Lake County blowing down a few trees near Paisley and Emerald.
February 1998Thunderstorm WindPaisley-Thunderstorm winds blew down trees northwest of Paisley.
July 2000HailPaisley-no account filed
June 1997HailPaisley-no account filed

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
Johnsons Corner0.5 miles13
Blue Lakes Ridge0.6 miles13
Chain O'Lakes1.6 miles13
Lake Kathryn3.4 miles10
Lake Kathryn Heights3.5 miles10
Fullerville5.0 miles10
Pittman5.4 miles14
Lake Mack Park5.6 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 PaisleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2551693The 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 306187. 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.