BlockCow Creek, Florida
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Central Volusia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32764. The Survey maps it on the Osceola quadrangle. It stands 20 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1949 to 1979The same ground, surveyed 30 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Compare 1949 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1949 USGS Osceola quadrangle1:24000
- 1955 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Osceola quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1979 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
409 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 409 fires within 5 miles of Cow Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,300 acres in total. 332 started naturally. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 332 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 34 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Other causes | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1999 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 5 September 2007 | Natural | 52 acres | Florida Forest Service | WF BREAK-91 9/05/07 |
| 4 September 2007 | Natural | 41 acres | Florida Forest Service | WF MIAMI CORP 09/05 |
| 4 September 2006 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | WF PASTURE # 2 |
| 3 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 3 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 3 September 1999 | Natural | 25 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2014 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | JONES FARM (64) |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Q5179397 | The 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 294727. 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.