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Orange City Hills, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the DeBary-Orange City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32763. The Survey maps it on the Orange City quadrangle.

Orange City Hills within Volusia 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 Orange City Hills, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Orange City Hills, surveyed 1955

On record in Orange City Hills

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 1 record

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

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

213 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 213 fires within 5 miles of Orange City Hills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,049 acres in total. 41 started naturally. 29 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
Natural41
Equipment and vehicle use41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Arson/incendiarism29
Misuse of fire by a minor26
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Recreation and ceremony11
Debris and open burning9
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks2

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
24 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2016Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCHURCH STREET (64)
18 September 2008Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2008-10-0738
5 August 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWF- LINCOLN
4 August 2009Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWF - OLD CASSADAGA
31 August 2013Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceKONOMAC LAKE (64)
3 August 2006Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF-HICKORY CREEK
25 August 1996Natural57 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

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
Orange City1.4 miles14
Blue Springs Landing2.5 miles14
Deltona2.6 miles14
DeBary3.2 miles14
Fatio4.1 miles14
Cassadaga4.1 miles13
Enterprise4.4 miles14
Benson Junction4.7 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 Q122590602The 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 288189. 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.