Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Eagle Lake, FL

Eagle Lake is a small city in Polk County, Florida, centered along U.S. Highway 17 in the Lakeland-Winter Haven metropolitan area.

Eagle Lake was first settled in 1880, when John Bingham purchased 160 acres on a knoll between the lakes now known as Eagle Lake, Lake McLeod, and Spirit Lake - he named the lake and community Eagle Lake after seeing an eagle nesting in a pine tree by the water.

Eagle Lake was officially incorporated as a town in October 1921 and was later reincorporated as the City of Eagle Lake in November 1975.

Eagle Lake had a population of 3,008 at the 2020 census, up from 2,255 in 2010; at the 2000 census it had 2,496 people living in 879 households.

Eagle Lake is one of Polk County's smallest cities by area, covering only about 1.4 square miles in the Central Florida Highlands, a landscape of flatland and gently rolling hills dotted with lakes.

Eagle Lake sits in Florida's humid subtropical climate zone, and like the rest of Polk County its early growth was tied to the Central Florida citrus industry.

Eagle Lake runs a commission-manager form of government, contracts its police services from the Polk County Sheriff's Office, and operates the Eagle Lake Public Library as part of the Polk County Library Cooperative.

In the 1980s Eagle Lake adopted the city motto 'Growing with people in mind,' reflecting its identity as a small, community-focused city between the larger hubs of Winter Haven and Bartow, the Polk County seat.