Mission City, Florida

The same ground, surveyed 41 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1937 1978

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Turnbull Canal Systemlisted 2007 · 0.8 miles away
• St. Rita's Colored Catholic Missionlisted 2007 · 0.9 miles away
• New Smyrna Sugar Mill Ruinslisted 1970 · 0.9 miles away

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.

• 1937 USGS Port Orange quadrangle1:48000
• 1943 USGS Port Orange quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Port Orange quadrangle1:62500
• 1954 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS New Smyrna Beach quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
• 1956 USGS Port Orange quadrangle1:62500
• 1958 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1964 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
• 1978 USGS New Smyrna Beach quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 225 fires within 5 miles of Mission City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,778 acres in total. 110 started naturally. 17 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Glencoe
• Sugar Mill Ruins Travel Park
• Sugar Mill Estates
• Edgewater Junction
• Isleboro
• New Smyrna (historical)

Every fire recorded in Volusia County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mission City: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand. 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 Volusia County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mission City in 2 storm reports in 2022: 2 lightning. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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.

Every storm recorded in Volusia County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 286990. 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.

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.