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Orange City, 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. 12,632 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 30 feet above sea level.

Orange City 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, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Orange City, surveyed 1955

On record in Orange City

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 6 records

Population over time

3 figures

Orange City grew from 365 to 12,632 between 1900 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
1900365
201010,599
202012,632+2,033 (+19%)

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

207 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 207 fires within 5 miles of Orange City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,159 acres in total. 37 started naturally. 26 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
Equipment and vehicle use45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Natural37
Arson/incendiarism26
Misuse of fire by a minor22
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Recreation and ceremony9
Debris and open burning7
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes2
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
5 September 2012Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceVICTORIA GARDENS (64)
27 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWF-64 VICTORIA PARK
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresFlorida Forest ServiceU.T. ROAD (64)
24 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2016Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCHURCH STREET (64)
5 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWF WAR ADMIRAL
4 August 2009Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWF - OLD CASSADAGA
3 August 2006Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF-HICKORY CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Volusia County

Storms near this place

12 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orange City in 12 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado. 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
August 2020Tornado (EF0)Orange City$40,000A National Weather Service Damage Survey confirmed that a brief EF-0 tornado impacted the Sunset Hills subdivision east of Orange City. The tornado tracked along a 0.1 mile long path, with maximum winds estimated between 65-75 mph. The tornado had a maximum width of approximately 70 yards. Several large tree branches were downed on both sides of County Road 4101, between Sunnyside Ave and E Graves Ave. A mobile home was destroyed after its roof caved in at the intersection of Sunnyside Ave and County Road 4101. Preliminary damage estimates from the Volusia County Property Appraiser was $40,000, with one structure destroyed. There were no reported injuries or fatalities.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindOrange City$30,000Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees and power lines in Orange City. Falling trees damaged six residences.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindOrange City$4,000Strong winds blew down trees and power lines along Benham Ave from 20th Street to 17th Street in Orange City. Reports, pictures, and videos from Twitter and WFTV.
August 2020HailOrange City-A trained spotter reported quarter sized hail in Orange City.
August 2020HailOrange City-The public reported hail to the size of golf balls in Orange City.
April 2012HailOrange City-A SKYWARN spotter reported nickel sized hail about one block south of the intersection of Highway 17/92 and Rhode Island Avenue in Orange City.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindOrange City-Tree blown down across road by winds. Road obstruction from downed tree and powerlines at E. Rose Ave. and Holly Ave. in Orange City.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindOrange City-Trees were blown down in the Orange City area.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindOrange City-Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines in Orange City.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindOrange City-Thunderstorm winds blew down a tree and numerous power lines in Orange City.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindOrange City-Thunderstorm winds blew down trees in Orange City.
May 1999HailOrange City-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
Orange City Hills1.4 miles14
Blue Springs Landing2.2 miles14
Fatio2.8 miles14
Cassadaga3.5 miles13
Deltona3.8 miles14
Lake Helen4.1 miles13
Beresford4.5 miles10
DeBary4.6 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.

Wikipedia article on Orange CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q986196The 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 288188. 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.

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.