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Blue Springs Landing, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the DeBary-Orange City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32763. It lies near Pine Island. The Survey maps it on the Orange City quadrangle.

Blue Springs Landing 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 Blue Springs Landing, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Blue Springs Landing, surveyed 1955

On record in Blue Springs Landing

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

186 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 186 fires within 5 miles of Blue Springs Landing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,068 acres in total. 50 started naturally. 19 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
Natural50
Equipment and vehicle use36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism19
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Recreation and ceremony11
Debris and open burning8
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes2
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
5 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceTOMAHAWK TRAIL (35)
24 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2011Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(35) CUMMER
4 August 2009Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWF - OLD CASSADAGA
31 August 2013Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceKONOMAC LAKE (64)
25 August 2000Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 August 2000Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 August 1996Natural57 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Orange City2.2 miles14
Orange City Hills2.5 miles14
Fatio2.6 miles14
Riverside3.8 miles14
Beresford4.1 miles10
DeBary4.5 miles14
Deltona5.0 miles14
West DeLand5.0 miles10

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.

Wikidata item Q122569976The 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 279076. 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.