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Creighton, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the New Smyrna Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32141. The Survey maps it on the Edgewater quadrangle. It stands 30 feet above sea level.

Creighton within Volusia County

Then and now

1950 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 29 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Creighton, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Creighton, surveyed 1950

Compare 1950 against another survey:

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

303 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 303 fires within 5 miles of Creighton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,392 acres in total. 146 started naturally. 26 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
Natural146
Missing data/not specified/undetermined47
Equipment and vehicle use37
Arson/incendiarism26
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Recreation and ceremony12
Debris and open burning11
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1
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
3 September 2007Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF FIVE ACRE
21 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenance14 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF-64-CLINTON CEMETARY RD.
2 September 1994Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2000Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2015Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBREAK 51 (64)
31 August 2013Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBEACON LIGHT (64)
30 August 2006Natural25 acresFlorida Forest Service730
3 August 2010Natural15 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF-64-BREAK 63

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
Ariel3.2 miles11
Hucomer3.8 miles12
Oak Hill3.9 miles14
Packwood Place4.5 miles11
Eldora5.6 miles11
Maytown5.9 miles13
Bethune Beach6.2 miles11
Edgewater Junction6.3 miles12

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 CreightonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5183993The 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 295226. 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.