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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.

Fern Park within Seminole County

Then and now

1955 to 1994

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Fern Park, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Fern Park, surveyed 1955

Compare 1955 against another survey:

Population over time

3 figures

Fern 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.

YearPeople Change
20008,318
20107,704-614 (-7%)
20208,205+501 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

35 since 1992

Regional 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 maintenance23
Natural3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1
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
26 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2000Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 July 1992Railroad operations and maintenance20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 July 1992Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 June 1998Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 June 1998Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 June 2004Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceBAHAMA (O-3)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Seminole County

Storms near this place

9 since 2002

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2014Thunderstorm WindFern Park$3,000A 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 2024Thunderstorm WindFern Park-Gas station awning collapsed at the 7-Eleven at the intersection of FL-436 and Howell Branch Road. Time estimated via radar.
April 2021HailFern Park-A trained spotter reported quarter sized hail in Casselberry.
April 2021HailFern Park-Local broadcast media relayed a report of quarter sized hail near Red Bug Lake Road and Dodd Road in Winter Springs.
June 2010HailFern Park-Amateur radio operator relayed a spotter report of golf ball sized hail at highway 436 near Casselberry.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindFern Park-Power lines were blown down on Concord Drive.
June 2007HailFern Park-no account filed
June 2007HailFern Park-no account filed
June 2002HailFern Park-no account filed

Every storm 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
Altamonte Springs1.1 miles15
Orienta Gardens1.7 miles15
Casselberry2.3 miles15
Weathersfield2.7 miles15
Sanlando Springs2.9 miles15
Longwood3.8 miles15
Winter Springs4.1 miles15
Goldenrod4.3 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 Fern ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2423750The 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.