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DeLand Highlands, Florida

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the DeLand census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32724. The Survey maps it on the DeLand quadrangle.

DeLand Highlands within Volusia County

Then and now

1954 to 1978

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 DeLand Highlands, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of DeLand Highlands, surveyed 1954

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

271 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 271 fires within 5 miles of DeLand Highlands between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,292 acres in total. 68 started naturally. 23 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
Natural68
Equipment and vehicle use60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined55
Arson/incendiarism23
Debris and open burning19
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Railroad operations and maintenance16
Recreation and ceremony9
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSPRING GARDEN (64)
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresFlorida Forest ServiceU.T. ROAD (64)
18 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceREYNOLDS ROAD FIRE(64)
5 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWF WAR ADMIRAL
4 August 2013Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service44 I-4 WESTBOUND (64)
2 August 2000Natural18 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 August 2014Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceREED RD (64)
13 August 2011Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceDELAND AIRPORT. (64

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
Cypress Lake Estates0.7 miles10
Daytona Park Estates1.5 miles11
North DeLand2.3 miles10
DeLand3.6 miles10
Glenwood4.9 miles10
West DeLand5.3 miles10
Tallahasse - Yuchi (historical)5.4 miles10
De Leon Springs Heights5.6 miles9

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 Q122566290The 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 281367. 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.