Port Orange, Florida
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Port Orange census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32127. It lies near Pelican Island. The Survey maps it on the Port Orange quadrangle. 62,596 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.
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 Port Orange
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 5 records
Dunlawton Avenue Historic Districtlisted 1998
Dunlawton Plantation-Sugar Mill Ruinslisted 1973
Gamble Place Historic Districtlisted 1993
Grace Episcopal Church and Guild Halllisted 1998
Port Orange Florida East Coast Railway Freight Depotlisted 1998
Population over time
2 figuresPort Orange grew from 56,048 to 62,596 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 56,048 | |
| 2020 | 62,596 | +6,548 (+12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 14 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 Port Orange quadrangle1:24000, 4 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
119 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Port Orange between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,328 acres in total. 55 started naturally. 13 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 | 55 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 14 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2007 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | WF- BEVILLE ROAD |
| 2 September 2014 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 12 acres | Florida Forest Service | COVE POINT RD (64) |
| 18 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | WF VILLAGE LANE-0739 |
| 3 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | WF-64-SPRUCE CREEK PRESERVE |
| 3 August 1992 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 3 August 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 25 August 2007 | Natural | 258 acres | Florida Forest Service | WF- CAMPSITE/OLD PIONEER RD. |
| 25 August 1996 | Natural | 10 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Orange in 15 storm reports between 1993 and 2008: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 2 lightning. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2002 | Lightning | Port Orange | 1 killed | A 62 year-old Port Orange man was killed by lightning outside his home. |
| September 2003 | Lightning | Port Orange | $250,000 | Lightning struck a warehouse in Port Orange. The resulting fire caused $250 thousand in damage. |
| April 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Port Orange | $120,000 | A small tornado touched down in the fly-in community of Spruce Creek overturning one single engine aircraft, destroying a pool enclosure and blowing down about a dozen trees. |
| April 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Port Orange | $120,000 | A small tornado touched down in the fly-in community of Spruce Creek overturning one single engine aircraft, destroying a pool enclosure and blowing down about a dozen trees. |
| July 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Port Orange | $100,000 | An F0 tornado touched down in a mobile community near Port Orange damaging 33 mobile homes and producing severe damage to two. The tornado also blew down trees and power lines. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Port Orange | $40,000 | Thunderstorm winds overturned a mobile home and damaged two others east of Port Orange. |
| June 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Port Orange | $20,000 | A small tornado touched down briefly in rural Volusia County, about four miles north of Highway 44 along Highway 415. The tornado blew down a few trees and destroyed a pool screen. |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Port Orange | $10,000 | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Hail | Port Orange | $3,000 | A few mobile homes were damaged by falling trees and quarter size hail in Port Orange. |
| March 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Port Orange | $500 | Strong thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines. |
| March 2008 | Hail | Port Orange | - | One inch hail was reported by the public in Port Orange. |
| May 1997 | Hail | Port Orange | - | Dime size hail fell in Port Orange. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Port Orange | - | Dime-size hail fell in Port Orange. |
| July 2004 | Hail | Port Orange | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Port Orange | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allandale | 1.5 miles | 16 | |
| Halifax Estates | 1.7 miles | 14 | |
| South Daytona | 2.0 miles | 13 | |
| Pickwick Village | 2.1 miles | 13 | |
| Wilbur-by-the-Sea | 2.1 miles | 14 | |
| Harbor Oaks | 2.5 miles | 16 | |
| Daytona Beach Shores | 2.7 miles | 14 | |
| Blake | 3.2 miles | 13 |
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 Port Orange | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q985301 | 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 295559. 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.








