Fern Park, Florida
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Casselberry-Altamonte Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32730. The Survey maps it on the Casselberry quadrangle. 8,205 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 95 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1955 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 39 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1955 against another survey:
Population over time
3 figuresFern Park fell from 8,318 to 8,205 between 2000 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 8,318 | |
| 2010 | 7,704 | -614 (-7%) |
| 2020 | 8,205 | +501 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1955 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Casselberry quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1962 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1994 USGS Casselberry quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
35 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Fern Park between 1992 and 2019, burning about 97 acres in total. 3 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 maintenance | 23 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 2 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 30 July 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 20 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 28 July 1992 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 27 July 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 26 June 1998 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 21 June 1998 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 1 June 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | BAHAMA (O-3) |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fern Park in 9 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 6 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fern Park | $3,000 | A manufactured home on Laura Street in the Lake Kathryn Estates subdivision had a large portion of its metal roof sheered off due to strong winds. Several carports attached to homes nearby experienced minor damage. Damage photos suggested peak winds less than 58 mph. The time of damage was estimated by radar. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fern Park | - | Gas station awning collapsed at the 7-Eleven at the intersection of FL-436 and Howell Branch Road. Time estimated via radar. |
| April 2021 | Hail | Fern Park | - | A trained spotter reported quarter sized hail in Casselberry. |
| April 2021 | Hail | Fern Park | - | Local broadcast media relayed a report of quarter sized hail near Red Bug Lake Road and Dodd Road in Winter Springs. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Fern Park | - | Amateur radio operator relayed a spotter report of golf ball sized hail at highway 436 near Casselberry. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fern Park | - | Power lines were blown down on Concord Drive. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Fern Park | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Fern Park | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Fern Park | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Altamonte Springs | 1.1 miles | 15 | |
| Orienta Gardens | 1.7 miles | 15 | |
| Casselberry | 2.3 miles | 15 | |
| Weathersfield | 2.7 miles | 15 | |
| Sanlando Springs | 2.9 miles | 15 | |
| Longwood | 3.8 miles | 15 | |
| Winter Springs | 4.1 miles | 15 | |
| Goldenrod | 4.3 miles | 14 |
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 Fern Park | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2423750 | The 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 282430. 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.






