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Kalamazoo, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Deltona census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32764. The Survey maps it on the Osceola quadrangle. It stands 20 feet above sea level.

Kalamazoo within Volusia County

Then and now

1949 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 30 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kalamazoo, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Kalamazoo, surveyed 1949

Compare 1949 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

430 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 430 fires within 5 miles of Kalamazoo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,701 acres in total. 259 started naturally. 16 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
Natural259
Missing data/not specified/undetermined55
Debris and open burning26
Equipment and vehicle use23
Railroad operations and maintenance21
Arson/incendiarism16
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Other causes2
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
7 September 1999Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2006Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF STARTING GATE
5 September 2007Natural52 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF BREAK-91 9/05/07
4 September 2007Natural41 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF MIAMI CORP 09/05
4 September 2006Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF PASTURE # 2
3 September 1999Natural25 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHEAP OF HEAVEN (59)
29 September 2016Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePLANET (64)

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
Boden1.1 miles12
Farmton2.6 miles14
Osteen2.8 miles12
Lemon Bluff3.0 miles12
Cow Creek4.4 miles14
Pennichaw6.4 miles14
Lake Ashby Shores6.5 miles12
Alamana6.7 miles12

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 KalamazooAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6350366The 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 294821. 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.