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Silver Lake, 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. 2,101 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 66 feet above sea level.

Silver Lake 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 Silver Lake, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Silver Lake, surveyed 1955

Population over time

3 figures

Silver Lake grew from 1,882 to 2,101 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
20001,882
20101,879-3 (-0%)
20202,101+222 (+12%)

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

114 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Silver Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,126 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 7 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 maintenance30
Debris and open burning22
Equipment and vehicle use14
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Natural13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Other causes1

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

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
Orange Bend1.3 miles12
Bassville Park1.6 miles12
Lisbon2.0 miles12
Mid Florida Lakes2.6 miles12
Harbor Shores3.4 miles12
Eldorado3.5 miles12
Sunnyside3.6 miles12
Cisky Park4.2 miles12

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 Silver LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2570485The 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 1867203. 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.