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Heathrow, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Sanford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32746. The Survey maps it on the Sanford quadrangle. 6,806 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 49 feet above sea level.

Heathrow within Seminole 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 Heathrow, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Heathrow, surveyed 1955

Population over time

2 figures

Heathrow grew from 5,896 to 6,806 between 2010 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
20105,896
20206,806+910 (+15%)

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

68 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Heathrow between 1992 and 2016, burning about 1,213 acres in total. 20 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 maintenance33
Natural20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
1 August 2016Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSCRUB RD (48)
9 July 1992Natural40 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 July 1993Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 July 2011Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceNOWHERE (59)
16 July 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service35/GAS LINE FIRE/0778
15 July 2016Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBIG BEAR (59)
10 July 1992Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 June 1999Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Seminole County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Heathrow: 1 prospect, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Diatomite, Sand. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Dot Oviedo - Oviedo #1 MineSandUnknown
Unnamed Diatomite DepositsDiatomiteProspect

Every working 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
Alaqua Lakes1.0 miles13
Crystal Heights2.1 miles14
Paola2.2 miles14
Sylvan Lake2.3 miles14
Markham2.3 miles13
Crystal Point2.4 miles14
Crystal Lake Shores2.6 miles14
Lake View2.7 miles15

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 HeathrowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2423734The 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 294456. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.