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Lake Park, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Lake Park census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31636. The Survey maps it on the Lake Park quadrangle. 932 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 157 feet above sea level.

Lake Park within Lowndes County

On record in Lake Park

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Lake Park grew from 549 to 932 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
2000549
2010733+184 (+34%)
2020932+199 (+27%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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

358 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 358 fires within 5 miles of Lake Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,325 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 104 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
Debris and open burning175
Arson/incendiarism104
Smoking22
Equipment and vehicle use15
Natural13
Recreation and ceremony10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burning133 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1996Smoking4.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020ECHOLS001
23 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-LOWNDES-009

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lowndes 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 Lake Park: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Water, Free, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium. 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
Statenville DepositPhosphorus-Phosphates, Water, Free, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, UraniumProspect1890

Every working recorded in Lowndes County

Storms near this place

33 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Park in 33 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 20 thunderstorm wind, 8 flash flood, 2 hail, 2 heavy rain. 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
August 2023Flash FloodLake Park$50,000A portion of Highway 41 was washed out due to flash flooding.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindLake Park$15,000A tree was blown down onto a car on Zeigler Road.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindLake Park$15,000The public reported minor roof damage as well as several downed trees and power lines.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindLake Park$10,000A tree was blown down onto a home on Oak St.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindLake Park$10,000Part of the roof of a Dairy Queen was blown onto cars in the parking lot in Lake Park.
March 2007Tornado (EF0)Lake Park$10,000An EF-0 tornado touched down near the RV park outside Lake Park. Numerous trees were snapped around the RV park with some minor structural damage observed.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindLake Park$4,000Trees were blown down in the eastern part of the county. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindLake Park$3,000Numerous trees and power lines were down across Lake Park.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindLake Park$2,000A power line fell on a semi-truck.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindLake Park$2,000The public reported downed trees and a storage shed blown over.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindLake Park$500One tree was blown down in southeast Lowndes County. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindLake Park-A tree was blown down on the southbound lane of Highway 41 just south of Lake Park.
August 2024Flash FloodLake Park-Flooding was reported at East Marion Ave and Pine Circle in Lake Park.
November 2024Flash FloodLake Park-Flooding was reported on State Highway 7 in both directions at Wisenbaker Road.
February 2023Flash FloodLake Park-Highway 41 was closed at the eastern edge of Lake Park due to flooding.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindLake Park-A couple of trees were blown down along the side of the road on Highway 41 southeast of Lake Park.
August 2022Flash FloodLake Park-Highway 7 at Wisenbaker Rd was closed due to flooding.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindLake Park-Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
July 2021Flash FloodLake Park-US Highway 41 south of Lake Park was closed due to flash flooding from Tropical Storm Elsa.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindLake Park-A tree was blown down in the Lake Park area.
February 2020Thunderstorm WindLake Park-A line was blown down at 501 Ricks Ave.
February 2020Thunderstorm WindLake Park-A line was blown down at Bethel Church Road and J Frank Culpepper Road.
June 2020Flash FloodLake Park-Water was over the roadway about 1 mile south of Lake Park on Highway 41 South.
June 2020Flash FloodLake Park-Wisenbacker Road was closed due to water over the roadway.
January 2017Thunderstorm WindLake Park-Trees were blown down in Lake Park.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindLake Park-Trees were blown down on Highway 41 between Lake Park and the Florida-Georgia state line.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindLake Park-Around 12 to 13 trees were reported blown down throughout Lowndes county.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindLake Park-A few trees were blown down around Lake Park.
June 2012Heavy RainLake Park-A storm total rainfall of 9.67 inches was measured from Tropical Storm Debby.
June 2012Heavy RainLake Park-A 72 hour storm total of 9.67 inches from Tropical Storm Debby was measured by a CoCoRaHS observer.
March 2012HailLake Park-Pea to penny sized hail covered the ground around Lake Park from a nearly stationary storm. Hail fell on occasion for around 1 hour.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindLake Park-A large tree was blown down on US Highway 41 just south of Lake Park.
March 1995HailLake Park-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lowndes 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
Herring1.5 miles7
Twin Lakes1.7 miles7
Melrose3.7 miles7
Dasher5.0 miles7
Newsome6.8 miles6
Clyattville7.2 miles10
Briggston7.2 miles10
Old Clyattville7.7 miles10

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 Lake ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2615385The 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 332166. 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.