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South Pine Lakes, 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 32736. The Survey maps it on the Pine Lakes quadrangle.

South Pine Lakes 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 South Pine Lakes, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of South Pine Lakes, 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

247 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 247 fires within 5 miles of South Pine Lakes between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,044 acres in total. 102 started naturally. 28 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
Natural102
Railroad operations and maintenance31
Arson/incendiarism28
Debris and open burning28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Equipment and vehicle use21
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceTOMAHAWK TRAIL (35)
4 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service35/BEAR LAKE FIRE/1050
20 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2013Natural10 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCULVERT (35)
16 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2007Natural3.5 acresFlorida Forest Service35/BOTANY FIRE/1075
8 August 2011Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(35) CUMMER

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
Pine Lakes0.7 miles13
Florida Hills1.1 miles13
Pine Hills1.4 miles13
Cassia3.4 miles13
Lake Mack Park4.0 miles13
Forest Hills4.9 miles10
Fullerville5.5 miles10
Chain O'Lakes5.6 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.

Wikidata item Q122555873The 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 306423. 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.