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Edgewater Junction, 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 32132. The Survey maps it on the Edgewater quadrangle.

Edgewater Junction 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 Edgewater Junction, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Edgewater Junction, 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

282 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 282 fires within 5 miles of Edgewater Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,584 acres in total. 151 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
Natural151
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Equipment and vehicle use30
Arson/incendiarism26
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Debris and open burning7
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
5 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWF MC CULLA ROAD
3 September 2007Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF FIVE ACRE
17 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWF 10TH STREET
17 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWF 10TH STREET #2
15 September 2013Natural2.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCHAMPION-I95 (64)
9 August 2010Natural6.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF-64-ST.REGIS
9 August 1999Natural15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Volusia County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Edgewater Junction: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Dot Deland - Edgewater MineSandUnknown

Every working 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
Sugar Mill Ruins Travel Park1.8 miles16
Edgewater2.5 miles12
Mission City3.1 miles16
New Smyrna Beach3.5 miles16
Glencoe3.6 miles16
Hucomer4.1 miles12
Packwood Place4.9 miles11
Sugar Mill Estates5.0 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295256. 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.