Riverside, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the DeLand census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32720. The Survey maps it on the Orange City quadrangle.

Riverside within Volusia County

Then and now

1955 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 24 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Riverside, surveyed 1979

Topographic sheet of Riverside, surveyed 1955

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1955 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Orange City quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1979 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

226 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 226 fires within 5 miles of Riverside between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,588 acres in total. 59 started naturally. 27 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	59
Equipment and vehicle use	38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	34
Arson/incendiarism	27
Debris and open burning	18
Recreation and ceremony	15
Railroad operations and maintenance	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Other causes	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4

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 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
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
5 August 2006	Natural	7.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	35/HELICOPTER FIRE/0854
4 August 2006	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	40

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Beresford	1.0 miles	10
Fatio	1.9 miles	14
West DeLand	2.1 miles	10
Daisy Lake	2.2 miles	10
Blue Springs Landing	3.8 miles	14
DeLand	3.9 miles	10
Orange City	4.7 miles	14
Tallahasse - Yuchi (historical)	4.9 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 301654. 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.