Daisy Lake, Florida

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the DeLand census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32720. It stands on Zeigler Dead River. The Survey maps it on the Lake Woodruff quadrangle.

Daisy Lake within Volusia County

Then and now

1954 to 1999

The same ground, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Daisy Lake, surveyed 1999

Topographic sheet of Daisy Lake, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1954 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Lake Woodruff quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1964 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1999 USGS Lake Woodruff quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

226 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 226 fires within 5 miles of Daisy Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 18,923 acres in total. 68 started naturally. 22 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	68
Equipment and vehicle use	37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	36
Arson/incendiarism	22
Recreation and ceremony	19
Debris and open burning	17
Railroad operations and maintenance	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Other causes	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3

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
9 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	SPRING GARDEN (64)
6 September 1992	Natural	100 acres	Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge	GATOR LAKE
5 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	TOMAHAWK TRAIL (35)
5 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	National Forests in Florida	FERNANDEZ 14
4 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	35/BEAR LAKE FIRE/1050
20 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
17 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	50 acres	Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge	HOT TIME
8 August 2011	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	(35) CUMMER

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Riverside	2.2 miles	14
Beresford	2.3 miles	10
West DeLand	2.5 miles	10
Tallahasse - Yuchi (historical)	3.0 miles	10
Fatio	3.9 miles	14
DeLand	4.0 miles	10
Glenwood	4.4 miles	10
North DeLand	4.6 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 305544. 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.