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Druid Park, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Sanford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32773. The Survey maps it on the Sanford quadrangle.

Druid Park within Seminole County

Then and now

1955 to 1979

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 Druid Park, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Druid Park, surveyed 1955

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

52 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Druid Park between 1992 and 2011, burning about 337 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was 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
Railroad operations and maintenance36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
19 August 1998Railroad operations and maintenance20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceOUT THERE (03)
12 July 2011Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMORE RAIN (59)
6 June 2000Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 June 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 June 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 May 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Seminole County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Druid Park: 5 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Seminole 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
Pinecrest0.4 miles14
Dreamworld0.5 miles14
Park View0.6 miles14
Rosalind Heights0.6 miles14
Flora Heights0.9 miles14
Lordland0.9 miles14
Country Club Manor1.0 miles14
Highland Park1.1 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.

Wikidata item Q122550861The 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 301353. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.