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Indian Mound Village, Florida

12 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 32771. It lies near Beck Hammock. The Survey maps it on the Osteen quadrangle. It stands 13 feet above sea level.

Indian Mound Village 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 Indian Mound Village, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Indian Mound Village, surveyed 1955

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

143 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 143 fires within 5 miles of Indian Mound Village between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,508 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
Railroad operations and maintenance22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Debris and open burning13
Arson/incendiarism11
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1
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
27 September 2010Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF-64-REED ELLIS
22 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined58 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF LEMON BLUFF BREAK OUT.
8 August 2008Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWF LAKE MONROE
8 August 2006Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWF-STONE ISLAND ROAD
7 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2006Debris and open burning2.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF- LAKE MCDONALD ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Seminole County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Indian Mound Village: 4 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

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
Canaan1.0 miles12
Beck Hammock1.1 miles12
Midway1.2 miles12
Roseland Park1.6 miles12
Bel-Air2.1 miles14
Wynwood2.1 miles14
Sanlanta2.6 miles14
Highland Park3.0 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 Indian Mound VillageAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6020973The 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 284523. 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.