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National Gardens, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Ormond Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32174. The Survey maps it on the Favoretta quadrangle.

National Gardens within Volusia County

Then and now

1937 to 1978

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.

Topographic sheet of National Gardens, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of National Gardens, surveyed 1937

Compare 1937 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

242 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 242 fires within 5 miles of National Gardens between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,804 acres in total. 121 started naturally. 11 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
Natural121
Equipment and vehicle use62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Arson/incendiarism11
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Recreation and ceremony6
Debris and open burning6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1

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
30 September 2006Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF-MONAGHAN DRIVE
3 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWF SW PLANTATION BAY
3 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined72 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF-64-TYMBER CREEK
16 September 2007Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF-NE BROADWAY POWERLINE
13 September 1993Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 September 1992Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2008Natural70 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTOMOKA RIVER FIRE

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
Tomoka Estates1.9 miles13
Ormond-by-the-Sea3.4 miles13
Mound Grove4.9 miles12
Ormond Beach4.9 miles13
Ellinor Village5.8 miles13
Ortona7.7 miles13
Holly Hill7.7 miles13
Seabreeze9.1 miles13

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 Q122572425The 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 287546. 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.