Summerport Beach, Florida

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Southwest Orange census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34786. The Survey maps it on the Windermere quadrangle.

Summerport Beach within Orange County

Then and now

1953 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 26 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Summerport Beach, surveyed 1979

Topographic sheet of Summerport Beach, surveyed 1953

Compare 1953 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Windermere quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Kissimmee quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

51 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Summerport Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 861 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 8 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 maintenance	13
Natural	10
Arson/incendiarism	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Fireworks	2
Debris and open burning	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 July 1998	Natural	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
13 July 2004	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	SUMMERPORT KEY (4)
12 July 1993	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
6 June 2001	Natural	115 acres	Florida Forest Service	ROLF
4 June 2000	Natural	125 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
3 June 2001	Natural	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
28 June 2004	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	REAMS (4)
11 June 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	TWO BULLS (04)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lake Butler	1.5 miles	14
Windermere	1.6 miles	11
Bay Hill	3.0 miles	11
Beulah	3.1 miles	14
Harlem Heights	3.3 miles	14
Gotha	3.4 miles	14
Minorville (historical)	4.5 miles	14
Lake Cain Hills	4.6 miles	12

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 Q122597784

The 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 291808. 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.