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Ponce Inlet, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the South Peninsula census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32127. It stands on Live Oak Creek. The Survey maps it on the New Smyrna Beach quadrangle. 3,364 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 13 feet above sea level.

Ponce Inlet within Volusia County

Then and now

1937 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 41 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ponce Inlet, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Ponce Inlet, surveyed 1937

Compare 1937 against another survey:

On record in Ponce Inlet

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Ponce Inlet grew from 3,032 to 3,364 between 2010 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
20103,032
20203,364+332 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

63 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Ponce Inlet between 1992 and 2020, burning about 396 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 2 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
Natural30
Equipment and vehicle use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1

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
3 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWF-64-SPRUCE CREEK PRESERVE
3 August 1992Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 August 2011Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWILLIAMS RD EAST (64)
21 August 1993Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 August 1993Natural3.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 August 2013Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceART CENTER (64)
9 July 2012Natural16 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMARTIN DAIRY RD (64)
9 July 2012Natural40 acresFlorida Forest ServiceROSEBAY 3 (64)

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
Ponce Park1.4 miles16
Harbor Oaks1.9 miles16
Isleboro2.2 miles16
Wilbur-by-the-Sea2.6 miles14
Allandale2.7 miles16
New Smyrna (historical)3.2 miles16
Halifax Estates3.9 miles14
Port Orange4.2 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 Ponce InletAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2036813The 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 289178. 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.