BlockMaytown, Florida
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Central Volusia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32759. The Survey maps it on the Maytown quadrangle. It stands 30 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1950 to 1979The same ground, surveyed 29 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Compare 1950 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1950 USGS Maytown quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1955 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Titusville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
384 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 384 fires within 5 miles of Maytown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,622 acres in total. 255 started naturally. 24 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 | 255 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 48 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 39 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 24 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1999 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 3 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 3 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 3 September 1999 | Natural | 25 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 29 September 2009 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | BEST WESTERN (O5) |
| 26 September 2018 | Natural | 25 acres | Florida Forest Service | HORSESHOE FIRE (05) |
| 26 September 2016 | Natural | 8.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | DEERING (5) |
| 22 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 acres | Florida Forest Service | TRAIL (64) |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maytown in 2 storm reports between 2004 and 2017: 1 hail, 1 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2017 | Lightning | Maytown | $200,000 | Broadcast media reported that a house was struck by lightning on Maytown road, just east of Interstate 95 and near Cubert Lane in Oak Hill. The house suffered extensive damage. The homeowner was inside when the house was struck but he was not injured. |
| October 2004 | Hail | Maytown | - | Large hail reportedly damaged cars in Maytown. |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Maytown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6798039 | 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 286559. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.