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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.

Port Orange 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 Port Orange, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Port Orange, surveyed 1937

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

Population over time

2 figures

Port 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.

YearPeople Change
201056,048
202062,596+6,548 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

119 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural55
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Arson/incendiarism13
Equipment and vehicle use12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony7
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
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
5 September 2007Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF- BEVILLE ROAD
2 September 2014Misuse of fire by a minor12 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCOVE POINT RD (64)
18 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWF VILLAGE LANE-0739
3 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWF-64-SPRUCE CREEK PRESERVE
3 August 1992Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 August 1992Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 August 2007Natural258 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF- CAMPSITE/OLD PIONEER RD.
25 August 1996Natural10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Volusia County

Storms near this place

15 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2002LightningPort Orange1 killedA 62 year-old Port Orange man was killed by lightning outside his home.
September 2003LightningPort Orange$250,000Lightning struck a warehouse in Port Orange. The resulting fire caused $250 thousand in damage.
April 1997Tornado (F0)Port Orange$120,000A 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 1997Tornado (F0)Port Orange$120,000A 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 1998Tornado (F0)Port Orange$100,000An 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 2005Thunderstorm WindPort Orange$40,000Thunderstorm winds overturned a mobile home and damaged two others east of Port Orange.
June 1995Tornado (F0)Port Orange$20,000A 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 1996Thunderstorm WindPort Orange$10,000no account filed
January 1999HailPort Orange$3,000A few mobile homes were damaged by falling trees and quarter size hail in Port Orange.
March 1993Thunderstorm WindPort Orange$500Strong thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines.
March 2008HailPort Orange-One inch hail was reported by the public in Port Orange.
May 1997HailPort Orange-Dime size hail fell in Port Orange.
May 1995HailPort Orange-Dime-size hail fell in Port Orange.
July 2004HailPort Orange-no account filed
September 1996Thunderstorm WindPort Orange-no account filed

Every storm 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
Allandale1.5 miles16
Halifax Estates1.7 miles14
South Daytona2.0 miles13
Pickwick Village2.1 miles13
Wilbur-by-the-Sea2.1 miles14
Harbor Oaks2.5 miles16
Daytona Beach Shores2.7 miles14
Blake3.2 miles13

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 OrangeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q985301The 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.