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Glenwood, Florida

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the DeLand census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32720. The Survey maps it on the DeLand quadrangle. It stands 85 feet above sea level.

Glenwood within Volusia County

Then and now

1954 to 1978

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 Glenwood, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Glenwood, surveyed 1954

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

174 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 174 fires within 5 miles of Glenwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 20,708 acres in total. 54 started naturally. 10 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
Natural54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Debris and open burning23
Equipment and vehicle use16
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Arson/incendiarism10
Recreation and ceremony10
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Other causes4
Smoking2

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
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSPRING GARDEN (64)
6 September 1992Natural100 acresLake Woodruff National Wildlife RefugeGATOR LAKE
5 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWF ARREDONDO 0718
4 September 2013Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceFEASERS & 17 (64)
18 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceREYNOLDS ROAD FIRE(64)
17 September 1997Arson/incendiarism50 acresLake Woodruff National Wildlife RefugeHOT TIME
26 August 2009Naturalunder an acreLake Woodruff National Wildlife RefugeBFD
22 August 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresLake Woodruff National Wildlife RefugeMALLARD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Volusia County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glenwood in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2013: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 2013Heavy RainGlenwood-CoCoRaHS station FL-VL-9 recorded a storm total of 5.49 of rain during Tropical Storm Andrea.
March 2000Thunderstorm WindGlenwood-Severe thunderstorm winds blew down trees near Lake Dexter.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindGlenwood-Thunderstorm winds blew down trees near Glenwood.
February 1998Thunderstorm WindGlenwood-Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees west of Glenwood.

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
Tallahasse - Yuchi (historical)1.5 miles10
De Leon Springs2.3 miles10
North DeLand3.9 miles10
De Leon Springs Heights4.2 miles9
Daisy Lake4.4 miles10
DeLand4.8 miles10
DeLand Highlands4.9 miles10
West DeLand5.0 miles10

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 GlenwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q47008586The 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 283118. 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.