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Barberville, Florida

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Pierson-Seville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32180. The Survey maps it on the Pierson quadrangle. It stands 46 feet above sea level.

Barberville within Volusia County

Then and now

1954 to 1978

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 Barberville, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Barberville, surveyed 1954

On record in Barberville

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

271 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 271 fires within 5 miles of Barberville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 14,675 acres in total. 114 started naturally. 11 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
Natural114
Missing data/not specified/undetermined44
Debris and open burning31
Equipment and vehicle use30
Railroad operations and maintenance28
Arson/incendiarism11
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1

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 2006Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF- 660 SR40
4 September 2013Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceFEASERS & 17 (64)
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHAGSTROM RD (64)
3 September 2000Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 September 2011Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceBLUFFTON MARSH (64)
8 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceBLUFFTON RD. (64)
6 August 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Volusia County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barberville in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2012: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
February 1998Thunderstorm WindBarberville$20,000Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and damaged a mobile home near Barberville and Pierson.
April 2012HailBarberville-A trained spotter observed quarter to half dollar sized hail near the intersection of Buckles Road and State Road 40, in Pierson.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindBarberville-Thunderstorm winds blew down a few trees in the Barberville area.
April 2005HailBarberville-no account filed
June 1996HailBarberville-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
Eldridge2.5 miles8
Emporia2.6 miles8
Conrad2.8 miles8
Pierson4.3 miles8
Volusia5.5 miles9
De Leon Springs6.0 miles10
Bluffton6.0 miles9
De Leon Springs Heights6.3 miles9

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 BarbervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4859631The 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 278099. 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.