Bay Lake
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city in Orange County, Florida, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Florida
- County
- Orange
- Incorporated
- May 12, 1967
- Named after
- Bay Lake
- Type
- Council-Manager
- Mayor
- Todd Watzel
- Mayor pro tem
- Tanya Peak-Smith
- Council members
- Sue McCall, Bryan Swartz, and, Tim Burns
- City manager
- Randy Singh
- City clerk
- Amy T. Iennaco
- Total
- 22.73 sq mi (58.88 km )
- Land
- 21.51 sq mi (55.70 km )
- Water
- 1.23 sq mi (3.18 km )
- Elevation
- 89 ft (27 m)
- Density
- 1.3/sq mi (0.52/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 (EDT)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Bay Lake is a city in Orange County, Florida, United States. The population was 29 at the 2020 census. It is named after a lake that lies east of Magic Kingdom. All four of the Walt Disney World Resort theme parks, and one of Walt Disney World's two water parks, are in Bay Lake, though all Disney parks in the region have mailing addresses in nearby Lake Buena Vista.
Bay Lake is one of two Florida municipalities inside the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District (formerly the Reedy Creek Improvement District) which also includes Walt Disney World, the other being Lake Buena Vista. Bay Lake is part of the Orlando–Kissimmee–Sanford Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bay Lake” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.