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Packwood Place, Florida

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the New Smyrna Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32141. It lies near Cedar Island. The Survey maps it on the Ariel quadrangle.

Packwood Place within Volusia County

Then and now

1950 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 29 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Packwood Place, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Packwood Place, surveyed 1950

Compare 1950 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

179 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 179 fires within 5 miles of Packwood Place between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,911 acres in total. 64 started naturally. 19 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
Natural64
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Arson/incendiarism19
Equipment and vehicle use18
Recreation and ceremony12
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Debris and open burning9
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking2

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 1999Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresFlorida 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
8 August 2000Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 August 2013Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBEACON LIGHT (64)
29 August 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreCanaveral National SeashoreAPOLLO POWER LINE
27 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServicePALMETTO BERRY (64)
19 August 1997Natural3.0 acresFlorida 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 Packwood Place: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand. 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
Dot Deland - Edgewater MineSandUnknown

Every working 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
Hucomer1.0 miles12
Bethune Beach1.8 miles11
Ariel2.6 miles11
Eldora3.3 miles11
Edgewater3.9 miles12
Creighton4.5 miles12
Edgewater Junction4.9 miles12
Oak Hill5.1 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 Q122547570The 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 295522. 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.