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Sorrento, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Mount Dora census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32776. The Survey maps it on the Sorrento quadrangle. 845 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 69 feet above sea level.

Sorrento 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 Sorrento, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Sorrento, surveyed 1955

Population over time

2 figures

Sorrento fell from 861 to 845 between 2010 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
2010861
2020845-16 (-2%)

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

109 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Sorrento between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,640 acres in total. 7 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 maintenance36
Debris and open burning26
Arson/incendiarism11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
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
2 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCHEVY(35)
10 August 2000Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 July 1995Railroad operations and maintenance7.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2000Railroad operations and maintenance60 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 July 2012Debris and open burning2.6 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLOWER WIKIVA ESCAPED BA (35)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Sorrento: 1 producer, 1 unknown, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand, Clay, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, Free. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Codding Sand and Soil Co. - Codding PitSandProducer
Coddings Sand and Sail Inc.ClayUnknown
Lake County DepositPhosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Water, FreeProspect1960

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sorrento in 2 storm reports between 1999 and 2016: 2 hail. 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
May 2016HailSorrento-A trained weather spotter observed quarter sized hail in Mt. Plymouth as a severe thunderstorm moved slowly southeast across the region.
July 1999HailSorrento-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
Mount Plymouth1.6 miles13
Seminole Springs3.2 miles13
Dublin3.6 miles12
Mount Dora4.3 miles12
Seneca4.5 miles13
Oakland Park6.0 miles12
Ethel6.4 miles13
Lake Jem6.9 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 SorrentoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2141823The 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 291330. 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.

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.