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Slavia, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Oviedo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32765. It lies near Mitchell Hammock. The Survey maps it on the Oviedo quadrangle. It stands 39 feet above sea level.

Slavia within Seminole 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 Slavia, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Slavia, 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.

Fires near this place

121 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Slavia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 377 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 7 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
Railroad operations and maintenance45
Natural26
Equipment and vehicle use18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Arson/incendiarism7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
2 September 2000Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2018Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLOCKWOOD- (59)
5 August 1999Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service314
1 August 1992Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 August 1992Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 July 1996Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 July 1992Railroad operations and maintenance20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Seminole County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Slavia: 3 producers, 2 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Seminole County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Slavia in 2 storm reports in 2017: 2 hail. 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
April 2017HailSlavia-A weather spotter in Winter Springs observed one inch hail. Two minutes later, an amateur radio operator measured quarter-sized hail about 0.75 miles west of the intersection of SR-417 and SR-434 in Winter Springs.
March 2017HailSlavia-A trained spotter in Winter Springs reported penny sized hail during a strong thunderstorm. Duration unknown.

Every storm 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
Jamestown1.3 miles14
Gabriella1.7 miles14
Alafaya Woods1.9 miles14
Oviedo1.9 miles14
Lake Charm2.5 miles14
Bertha2.8 miles14
Neheb3.4 miles14
Whites Landing3.6 miles14

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 SlaviaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7539329The 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 291223. 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.

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.