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Samsula, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Central Volusia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32168. The Survey maps it on the Samsula quadrangle.

Samsula within Volusia County

Then and now

1952 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 26 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Samsula, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Samsula, surveyed 1952

Compare 1952 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

358 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 358 fires within 5 miles of Samsula between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,860 acres in total. 175 started naturally. 31 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
Natural175
Missing data/not specified/undetermined51
Equipment and vehicle use49
Arson/incendiarism31
Debris and open burning17
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony3

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
9 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWF POINEER TRAIL NORTH #1
2 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePOWERLINE RD (64)
15 September 2013Natural2.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCHAMPION-I95 (64)
14 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2007Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF KIRKLAND SOD
6 August 2010Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF-64-SECTION 32 FIRE
31 August 1998Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Volusia County

Storms near this place

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Samsula in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
October 2021Thunderstorm WindSamsula$1,000A trained spotter reported localized wind damage at a home near the 1900th block of Glencoe Road in New Smyrna Beach. The damage included a downed small fence, minor damage to a pool screen enclosure, and small tree branches downed.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindSamsula-Local broadcast media relayed a report of numerous trees downed onto power lines along Old Mission Road in New Smyrna Beach.

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
Sugar Mill Estates3.8 miles16
Glencoe4.2 miles16
Mission City5.5 miles16
Sugar Mill Ruins Travel Park6.0 miles16
Isleboro6.1 miles16
Alamana6.4 miles12
Lake Ashby Shores6.4 miles12
New Smyrna (historical)6.4 miles16

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 Q122566636The 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 290466. 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.