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Alafaya, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Union Park census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32828. The Survey maps it on the Oviedo SW quadrangle. 92,452 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 75 feet above sea level.

Alafaya 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 Alafaya, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Alafaya, surveyed 1953

Compare 1953 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Alafaya grew from 78,113 to 92,452 between 2010 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
201078,113
202092,452+14,339 (+18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

235 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 235 fires within 5 miles of Alafaya between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,387 acres in total. 52 started naturally. 55 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
Arson/incendiarism55
Natural52
Equipment and vehicle use40
Railroad operations and maintenance35
Misuse of fire by a minor21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Recreation and ceremony4
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks2

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
4 September 2014Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceYOUNG PINE (48)
3 September 2000Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2001Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 August 1999Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service314
21 August 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceAFTON (48)
20 August 2000Natural25 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange 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 Alafaya: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand. 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
Sullivan Materials - Sullivan Materials MineSandUnknownSand

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
University Park0.3 miles13
Lockwood3.6 miles13
Union Park4.0 miles14
Azalea Park5.0 miles14
Lake Pickett5.2 miles14
Bithlo5.6 miles14
Aloma5.6 miles14
Tala Apopka (historical)6.9 miles11

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 AlafayaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4705552The 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 2085182. 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.