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Sanlando Springs, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Casselberry-Altamonte Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32750. The Survey maps it on the Forest City quadrangle. It stands 56 feet above sea level.

Sanlando Springs within Seminole County

Then and now

1955 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 40 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sanlando Springs, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Sanlando Springs, surveyed 1955

Compare 1955 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

27 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Sanlando Springs between 1992 and 2019, burning about 78 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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
Railroad operations and maintenance19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
28 July 1992Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 June 1994Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 June 1998Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 May 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceFORD (59)
28 May 2000Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 May 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution7.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceRAVEN (59)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Seminole County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sanlando Springs: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Diatomite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed Diatomite DepositsDiatomiteProspect

Every working recorded in Seminole 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
Weathersfield1.8 miles15
Altamonte Springs1.8 miles15
Orienta Gardens1.8 miles15
Wekiwa Springs2.5 miles15
Longwood2.7 miles15
Fern Park2.9 miles15
Casselberry2.9 miles15
Longdale3.2 miles15

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 Sanlando SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7418789The 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 290643. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.