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Alamana, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Central Volusia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32168. It stands on Lake Ashby Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lake Ashby quadrangle. It stands 33 feet above sea level.

Alamana within Volusia 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 Alamana, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Alamana, 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

369 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 369 fires within 5 miles of Alamana between 1992 and 2020, burning about 24,836 acres in total. 186 started naturally. 21 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
Natural186
Missing data/not specified/undetermined60
Equipment and vehicle use30
Debris and open burning25
Arson/incendiarism21
Railroad operations and maintenance19
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking2
Fireworks1

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceBOYS SCOUT RD (64)
4 September 2013Natural3.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBOYSCOUT2(64)
3 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWF LEFFLER NORTH
3 September 2000Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2016Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCORRAL POWERLINES (64)
29 September 2016Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePINE STAND (64)
28 September 2016Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceROCKY TURTLE (64)
26 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF-HOWLAND 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Volusia County

Storms near this place

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alamana in 1 storm report in 2004: 1 hail. 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
June 2004HailAlamana-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Volusia 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
Lake Ashby Shores0.5 miles12
Samsula6.4 miles12
Kalamazoo6.7 miles14
Farmton7.0 miles14
Cassadaga7.2 miles13
Osteen7.4 miles12
Lake Helen7.4 miles13
Boden7.6 miles12

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 AlamanaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4705806The 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 294647. 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.

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.