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Sunnyside, 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 34748. It lies near Tomato Hill. The Survey maps it on the Leesburg East quadrangle.

Sunnyside 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 Sunnyside, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Sunnyside, surveyed 1955

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

81 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Sunnyside between 1992 and 2020, burning about 166 acres in total. 7 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 maintenance21
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Equipment and vehicle use11
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1

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
28 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHURRICANE (35)
8 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 August 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 August 1993Natural29 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 July 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 July 2000Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 July 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 July 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sunnyside: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Kaolin. 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
Florida China Clay Company PitKaolinPast Producer

Every working 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
Eldorado0.6 miles12
Cisky Park0.8 miles12
Leesburg2.4 miles14
Hawthorne3.2 miles12
Silver Lake3.6 miles12
Okahumpka (historical)4.1 miles14
Yalaha4.4 miles11
Lane Park4.5 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295655. 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.