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Farmton, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Central Volusia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32764. The Survey maps it on the Osceola quadrangle. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Farmton within Volusia County

Then and now

1949 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 30 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Farmton, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Farmton, surveyed 1949

Compare 1949 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

406 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 406 fires within 5 miles of Farmton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,173 acres in total. 297 started naturally. 8 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
Natural297
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Debris and open burning23
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Equipment and vehicle use12
Arson/incendiarism8
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Other causes2
Fireworks1
Smoking1

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
7 September 1999Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2006Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF STARTING GATE
5 September 2007Natural52 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF BREAK-91 9/05/07
4 September 2007Natural41 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF MIAMI CORP 09/05
4 September 2006Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF PASTURE # 2
3 September 2000Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1999Natural25 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2016Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePLANET (64)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Volusia County

Storms near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Farmton in 1 storm report in 2007: 1 hail. 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
May 2007HailFarmton-no account filed

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
Cow Creek1.9 miles14
Kalamazoo2.6 miles14
Boden3.6 miles12
Pennichaw4.4 miles14
Lemon Bluff4.7 miles12
Osteen5.4 miles12
Maytown6.0 miles13
Lake Ashby Shores6.6 miles12

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 FarmtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5435947The 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 294761. 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.