Ponce Park, 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 Halifax River. The Survey maps it on the New Smyrna Beach quadrangle.
Then and now
1937 to 1978The 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.


Compare 1937 against another survey:
On record in Ponce Park
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 within a mile 3 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Ponce De Leon Inlet LightstationNational Historic Landmark · listed 1972 · 0.4 miles away
Meyer-Davis House-Hasty Cottagelisted 2015 · 0.8 miles away- Pacetti Hotellisted 2020 · 0.5 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1937 USGS Port Orange quadrangle1:48000
- 1943 USGS Port Orange quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Port Orange quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS New Smyrna Beach quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1956 USGS Port Orange quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS New Smyrna Beach quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
73 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Ponce Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 572 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 3 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 | 29 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | WF-64-SPRUCE CREEK PRESERVE |
| 3 August 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 22 August 2011 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | WILLIAMS RD EAST (64) |
| 21 August 1993 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 20 August 1993 | Natural | 3.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 17 August 2013 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | ART CENTER (64) |
| 9 July 2012 | Natural | 40 acres | Florida Forest Service | ROSEBAY 3 (64) |
| 9 July 2012 | Natural | 40 acres | Florida Forest Service | ROSE BAY #2 (64) |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ponce Park in 9 storm reports between 2001 and 2021: 4 hail, 2 lightning, 1 rip current, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death and 3 injuries. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2001 | Rip Current | Ponce Park | 1 killed | A 17 year old man drowned near Ponce Inlet when he entered the water to help another person who was struggling in a rip current. |
| September 2007 | Lightning | Ponce Park | 2 hurt | A small boat was struck by lightning in the Halifax River. The two people on board were transported to a local hospital with minor injuries. |
| August 2016 | Lightning | Ponce Park | 1 hurt | A 55 year old Daytona Beach man was struck by lightning while riding an all-terrain vehicle near Sliver Beach Avenue on Daytona Beach. The man was transported to a local medical center where he was treated for minor injuries and released. |
| November 2001 | Flash Flood | Ponce Park | $500,000 | Showers and thunderstorms dumped over 5 inches of rain in coastal sections of Volusia County. Thirty five homes in the Ponce Inlet, Daytona Beach and Ormond by the Sea areas received some water damage. |
| March 2021 | Hail | Ponce Park | - | A trained spotter reported penny sized hail on South Halifax Drive in Daytona Beach. |
| July 2011 | Funnel Cloud | Ponce Park | - | A trained spotter and a citizen reported an inland moving funnel cloud near the Main Street Pier in Daytona Beach. The funnel was likely the remnant of a waterspout sighted just offshore the pier moments earlier. |
| February 2010 | Hail | Ponce Park | - | A Daytona Beach citizen observed quarter size hail as the severe thunderstorm crossed the barrier island and moved to the Atlantic. |
| June 2001 | Hail | Ponce Park | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Ponce Park | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ponce Inlet | 1.4 miles | 16 | |
| Isleboro | 1.7 miles | 16 | |
| New Smyrna (historical) | 2.2 miles | 16 | |
| Harbor Oaks | 3.2 miles | 16 | |
| New Smyrna Beach | 3.8 miles | 16 | |
| Wilbur-by-the-Sea | 4.0 miles | 14 | |
| Allandale | 4.1 miles | 16 | |
| Sugar Mill Estates | 4.1 miles | 16 |
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 Q122559268 | The 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 1805274. 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.








