BlockLake Ashby Shores, Florida
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Central Volusia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32168. It stands on Lake Ashby Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lake Ashby quadrangle.
Then and now
1955 to 1979The 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 sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1955 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Lake Ashby quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1979 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
364 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 364 fires within 5 miles of Lake Ashby Shores between 1992 and 2020, burning about 24,936 acres in total. 190 started naturally. 20 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 190 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 57 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 30 |
| Debris and open burning | 22 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 20 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 20 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Smoking | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | BOYS SCOUT RD (64) |
| 4 September 2013 | Natural | 3.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | BOYSCOUT2(64) |
| 3 September 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | WF LEFFLER NORTH |
| 3 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 29 September 2016 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | CORRAL POWERLINES (64) |
| 29 September 2016 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | PINE STAND (64) |
| 28 September 2016 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | ROCKY TURTLE (64) |
| 2 September 2013 | Natural | 9.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | BOYSCOUT (64) |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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.
| Wikidata item Q122570093 | The 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 295397. 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.