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DeLand, 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. 37,351 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 36 feet above sea level.

DeLand 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, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of DeLand, surveyed 1954

On record in DeLand

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 records

Population over time

3 figures

DeLand grew from 1,113 to 37,351 between 1890 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
18901,113
201027,031
202037,351+10,320 (+38%)

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

263 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 263 fires within 5 miles of DeLand between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,646 acres in total. 52 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
Equipment and vehicle use56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined55
Natural52
Misuse of fire by a minor23
Arson/incendiarism23
Railroad operations and maintenance16
Recreation and ceremony15
Debris and open burning14
Other causes6
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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)
5 September 2012Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceVICTORIA GARDENS (64)
27 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWF-64 VICTORIA PARK
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresFlorida Forest ServiceU.T. ROAD (64)
19 September 2016Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCHURCH STREET (64)
17 September 1997Arson/incendiarism50 acresLake Woodruff National Wildlife RefugeHOT TIME
5 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWF WAR ADMIRAL
4 August 2013Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service44 I-4 WESTBOUND (64)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Volusia County

Storms near this place

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names DeLand in 3 storm reports in 1993: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 1993Thunderstorm WindDeland$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and power lines and blew in windows.
March 1993Thunderstorm WindDeland$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds destroyed shutters and damaged roofs.
March 1993Thunderstorm WindDeland-A thunderstorm gust to 74 mph was recorded.

Every storm 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
North DeLand1.5 miles10
West DeLand1.8 miles10
Beresford2.9 miles10
Cypress Lake Estates3.2 miles10
Daytona Park Estates3.5 miles11
DeLand Highlands3.6 miles10
Fatio3.6 miles14
Riverside3.9 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.

Wikipedia article on DeLandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q988934The 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 281473. 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.

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.