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Oak Hill, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the New Smyrna Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32759. It lies near Bull Hill. The Survey maps it on the Oak Hill quadrangle. 1,986 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 13 feet above sea level.

Oak Hill within Volusia County

Then and now

1949 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 30 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Oak Hill, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Oak Hill, surveyed 1949

Compare 1949 against another survey:

On record in Oak Hill

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Oak Hill grew from 1,792 to 1,986 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,792
20201,986+194 (+11%)

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

238 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 238 fires within 5 miles of Oak Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,373 acres in total. 88 started naturally. 22 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
Natural88
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Equipment and vehicle use41
Arson/incendiarism22
Debris and open burning15
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Recreation and ceremony9
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
26 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlorida Forest Service645
23 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenance14 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF-64-CLINTON CEMETARY RD.
2 September 1994Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2000Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Volusia County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Oak Hill: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Volusia Co. Rd. and Bridge - Oak Hill PitLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Volusia County

Storms near this place

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Hill in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 3 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2024FloodOak Hill$240,000,000Volusia County Emergency Management reported significant urban, street, and low-lying flooding as a result of 6 to 12 inches of rain in association with Hurricane Milton. A period of very heavy rainfall rates associated with the core of the storm led to flash flooding during the overnight period (Oct 9 - 10).||The heavy rain that fell as a result of the storm also led to a long-term river flood event along the St. Johns with the river near Geneva entering major flood on Oct 14, peaking at 10.15 feet on Oct 15. At Deland, the river rapidly rose to major flood stage on Oct 11, peaking at 5.49 ft on Oct. 14. Downstream at Astor, the river was already in minor flood stage at the beginning of the event and quickly rose to major the morning of Oct 10, peaking at 4.81 ft on Oct 12, a new record for the site.
February 1998Tornado (F2)Oak Hill$500,000The same supercell that produced the Sanford tornado produced an F2 tornado that touched down just west of Interstate 95 about 5 miles west of Oak Hill. The tornado moved northeast at 45 mph blowing down trees destroying two barns and damaging 10 mobile homes and 2 houses. The tornado lifted at the town of Ariel at U.S. Highway 1.
July 2003LightningOak Hill$30,000Fire started by lightning destroyed a mobile home on Maytown Road.
July 1997Tornado (F0)Oak Hill$30,000A small tornado touched down briefly in Oak Hill damaging two houses and eight mobile homes.
September 1999Flash FloodOak Hill$10,000Heavy rain of 2 to 4 inches produced flooding in Oak Hill. Two homes had minor flooding.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindOak Hill-U.S. Air Force Wind Tower 22 at the Kennedy Space Center recorded a 59 mph wind gust as a thunderstorm occurred near Haulover Canal.
July 2003HailOak Hill-no account filed
March 2001HailOak Hill-no account filed
April 2000HailOak Hill-no account filed

Every storm 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
Ariel2.5 miles11
Eldora3.6 miles11
Creighton3.9 miles12
Packwood Place5.1 miles11
Hucomer5.3 miles12
Bethune Beach5.9 miles11
Maytown6.8 miles13
Edgewater9.0 miles12

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 Oak HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q767505The 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 287965. 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.