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New Upsala, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Sanford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32771. The Survey maps it on the Sanford quadrangle.

New Upsala within Seminole County

Then and now

1955 to 1979

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 New Upsala, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of New Upsala, surveyed 1955

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

69 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of New Upsala between 1992 and 2018, burning about 604 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 5 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
Railroad operations and maintenance37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Natural8
Arson/incendiarism5
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
19 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceOUT THERE (03)
5 July 1993Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 July 2011Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceNOWHERE (59)
6 June 2000Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 June 1999Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 June 1998Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 June 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Seminole County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of New Upsala: 5 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand, Clay. 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 Seminole County

Storms near this place

5 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Upsala in 5 storm reports in 2020: 5 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2020HailNew Upsala-The public reported two inch hail in Lake Mary near County Road 46A and Country Club Road.
May 2020HailNew Upsala-A trained spotter reported two inch hail near State Road 417 and Rinehart Road.
May 2020HailNew Upsala-The public reported golf ball sized hail near the intersection of State Road 46 and White Cedar Road.
May 2020HailNew Upsala-A member of the public reported golf ball sized hail near County Road 46A and Vihlen Road.
May 2020HailNew Upsala-A trained spotter reported three inch diameter hail in Sanford. Photos confirmed the hail size. This ties the largest hail size ever documented within east-central Florida.

Every storm recorded in Seminole 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
Ravenna Park0.6 miles14
Lock Arbor0.7 miles14
The Retreat at Twin Lakes0.8 miles14
Saint Josephs1.1 miles14
Lincoln Heights1.2 miles14
Greenbriar1.4 miles14
Woodruff Springs1.7 miles14
Country Club Manor1.8 miles14

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 Q122567664The 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 287697. 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.