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Altamonte Springs, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Casselberry-Altamonte Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32701. The Survey maps it on the Casselberry quadrangle. 46,231 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 85 feet above sea level.

Altamonte Springs within Seminole County

Then and now

1955 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 39 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Altamonte Springs, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Altamonte Springs, surveyed 1955

Compare 1955 against another survey:

On record in Altamonte Springs

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Altamonte Springs grew from 41,496 to 46,231 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
201041,496
202046,231+4,735 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Altamonte Springs between 1992 and 2019, burning about 131 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was 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
Railroad operations and maintenance30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Debris and open burning1
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
2 September 2000Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 July 1992Railroad operations and maintenance20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 July 1992Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 June 1998Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 June 1998Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 May 1995Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 May 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Seminole County

Storms near this place

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Altamonte Springs in 2 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
July 1994Thunderstorm WindAltamonte Springs$5,000Severe thunderstorm winds blew down trees in Altamonte Springs, blew a tree onto a car in Oviedo, and onto a house in Casselberry.
June 1995HailAltamonte Springs-Dime-size hail fell in Altamonte Springs.

Every storm recorded in Seminole 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
Orienta Gardens0.9 miles15
Fern Park1.1 miles15
Weathersfield1.8 miles15
Sanlando Springs1.8 miles15
Casselberry2.3 miles15
Longwood3.2 miles15
Longdale3.8 miles15
Winter Springs4.0 miles15

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 Altamonte SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q434355The 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 277821. 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.