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Cameron City, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Sanford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32773. It stands on Reedy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Osteen quadrangle.

Cameron City within Seminole 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 Cameron City, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Cameron City, 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

89 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Cameron City between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,716 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 1 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 maintenance33
Natural29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
6 September 2007Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHERE WE GO AGAIN (3)
2 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 August 1993Equipment and vehicle use260 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance65 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2002Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 August 1998Railroad operations and maintenance20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Seminole County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Cameron City: 4 unknowns, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Seminole County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cameron City in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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
August 2024Tornado (EF0)Cameron City-Reports and video from the Orlando-Sanford International Airport tower as well as public and broadcast media show a waterspout developed over Lake Jesup. It remained over the lake and did not move onshore.
May 2022HailCameron City-Local broadcast media relayed a report of quarter-sized hail near the intersection of East Lake Mary Blvd. and Skyway Drive in Sanford.
July 2011Funnel CloudCameron City-A trained spotter reported a funnel cloud just southeast of Sanford International Airport.

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
Beck Hammock2.1 miles12
Canaan2.3 miles12
Midway2.4 miles12
Lordland2.4 miles14
South Sanford Heights2.5 miles14
Flora Heights2.6 miles14
Rosalind Heights2.8 miles14
Bentwood Grove2.8 miles14

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 Q122592538The 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 279869. 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.

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.