Manhatten, Florida

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Umatilla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32102. It lies near Falana Island. The Survey maps it on the Astor quadrangle.

Manhatten within Lake 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 Manhatten, surveyed 1978

Topographic sheet of Manhatten, surveyed 1954

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1954 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Astor quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1978 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

248 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 248 fires within 5 miles of Manhatten between 1992 and 2020, burning about 17,722 acres in total. 152 started naturally. 23 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	152
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28
Arson/incendiarism	23
Debris and open burning	11
Recreation and ceremony	9
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Fireworks	2
Smoking	2
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

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 2006	Natural	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	WF- 660 SR40
3 September 2000	Natural	6.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
28 September 2018	Natural	3.2 acres	National Forests in Florida	BOWERS BLUFF
28 September 2011	Natural	2,500 acres	Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge	EQUINOX
14 September 1998	Natural	67 acres	National Forests in Florida	CEDAR CREEK
12 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	BLUFFTON MARSH (64)
10 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	National Forests in Florida	BOWERS BLUFF
9 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	National Forests in Florida	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Astor	1.7 miles	9
Astor Park	3.1 miles	9
Alexander Springs	5.2 miles	8
Mosquito Grove	6.1 miles	10
Camp Ocala	6.5 miles	9
Lake Kathryn	8.6 miles	10
Lake Kathryn Heights	8.7 miles	10
Saint Francis	8.7 miles	10

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 Q122557526

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 304984. 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.