Osceola, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Oviedo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32732. The Survey maps it on the Osceola quadrangle.

Osceola within Seminole 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 Osceola, surveyed 1979

Topographic sheet of Osceola, surveyed 1949

Compare 1949 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.

1949 USGS Osceola quadrangle1:24000
1955 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Osceola quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1979 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

380 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 380 fires within 5 miles of Osceola between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,420 acres in total. 270 started naturally. 7 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
Natural	270
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45
Debris and open burning	19
Railroad operations and maintenance	19
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Arson/incendiarism	7
Other causes	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 1999	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
5 September 2011	Natural	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	ALMOST (59)
5 September 2007	Natural	52 acres	Florida Forest Service	WF BREAK-91 9/05/07
4 September 2006	Natural	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	WF PASTURE # 2
3 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
3 September 1999	Natural	25 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
29 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	HEAP OF HEAVEN (59)
19 September 2014	Natural	4.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	JONES FARM (64)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Mullet Lake Park	4.2 miles	12
Palm Shadows	4.4 miles	12
Geigers Landing	4.7 miles	12
Geneva	4.7 miles	14
Buda	6.1 miles	14
Snow Hill	6.8 miles	14
Kolokee	7.9 miles	14
Indian Mound Village	8.4 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 294876. 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.