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Fort Florida, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the DeBary-Orange City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32713. It stands on Butchers Bend. The Survey maps it on the Sanford quadrangle. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Fort Florida within Volusia 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 Fort Florida, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Fort Florida, 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

137 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Fort Florida between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,274 acres in total. 58 started naturally. 11 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
Natural58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use15
Arson/incendiarism11
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Debris and open burning7
Recreation and ceremony6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
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
24 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2008Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2008-10-0738
31 August 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceYOUPON TRAIL 2 (35)
31 August 2013Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceKONOMAC LAKE (64)
28 August 2000Natural12 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2000Natural40 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 August 2000Natural8.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 August 2000Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Benson Junction1.3 miles14
Valdez2.3 miles14
DeBary2.6 miles14
Enterprise4.7 miles14
Orange City Hills5.2 miles14
Blue Springs Landing5.3 miles14
Deltona5.3 miles14
Orange City6.3 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 Fort FloridaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5471150The 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 300822. 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.