River Forest, Florida

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Umatilla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32720. It lies near Drigger Islands. The Survey maps it on the Lake Woodruff quadrangle.

River Forest within Lake County

Then and now

1954 to 1999

The same ground, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of River Forest, surveyed 1999

Topographic sheet of River Forest, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1954 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Lake Woodruff quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1964 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1999 USGS Lake Woodruff quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

270 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 270 fires within 5 miles of River Forest between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19,907 acres in total. 80 started naturally. 33 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	80
Equipment and vehicle use	41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	39
Arson/incendiarism	33
Debris and open burning	26
Railroad operations and maintenance	18
Recreation and ceremony	17
Other causes	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	5

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
6 September 1992	Natural	100 acres	Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge	GATOR LAKE
5 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	TOMAHAWK TRAIL (35)
5 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	National Forests in Florida	FERNANDEZ 14
4 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	35/BEAR LAKE FIRE/1050
20 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
17 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	50 acres	Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge	HOT TIME
8 August 2011	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	(35) CUMMER
8 August 2008	Natural	1.7 acres	National Forests in Florida	FERNANDEZ

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Crows Bluff	0.4 miles	10
Forest Hills	1.9 miles	10
Saint Francis	2.2 miles	10
Lake Mack Park	2.9 miles	13
Fullerville	3.3 miles	10
Pine Hills	4.6 miles	13
Mosquito Grove	4.9 miles	10
Florida Hills	4.9 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 306289. 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.