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Piedmont, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Orlando census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32703. The Survey maps it on the Forest City quadrangle.

Piedmont within Orange County

Then and now

1955 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 40 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Piedmont, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Piedmont, surveyed 1955

Compare 1955 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

48 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Piedmont between 1992 and 2019, burning about 357 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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
Arson/incendiarism11
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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
27 September 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceJUNE BUG (48)
23 July 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCLARKE (48)
12 July 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 June 2008Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCOLD CAT FISH (04)
26 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMEADOWS (48)
24 June 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceGUMBALL (04)
9 May 1996Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWET BIRD (4)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange 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 Piedmont: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Mabel QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Piedmont in 1 storm report in 2024: 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
June 2024Tornado (EF0)Piedmont-DOT cameras show a likely landspout with lofted dust along FL-414 at the intersection of US-441. No damage was reported.

Every storm recorded in Orange 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
Lockhart1.5 miles15
Riverside Acres2.3 miles15
Clarcona2.8 miles15
Rosemont2.8 miles15
South Apopka3.2 miles13
Apopka4.0 miles13
Eatonville4.4 miles15
Lake Apopka4.6 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 288791. 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.