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South Apopka, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Apopka census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32703. The Survey maps it on the Apopka quadrangle. 6,803 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 125 feet above sea level.

South Apopka within Orange 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 South Apopka, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of South Apopka, surveyed 1955

On record in South Apopka

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

South Apopka grew from 5,728 to 6,803 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20105,728
20206,803+1,075 (+19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

51 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of South Apopka between 1993 and 2019, burning about 386 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Arson/incendiarism12
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
27 September 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceJUNE BUG (48)
23 July 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCLARKE (48)
23 July 1996Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 July 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 July 1998Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 June 2008Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCOLD CAT FISH (04)
6 June 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePITT (4)
26 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMEADOWS (48)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Apopka in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
September 2010LightningSouth Apopka2 hurtAn isolated early evening thunderstorm developed just south of Wekiva High School, where a football game was underway. School officials suspended the game and asked spectators to evacuate the stadium. As the stadium was being cleared, lightning struck one of four towering light posts and two people were injured (one person was leaning against a metal fence adjacent to the stands). Both individuals were transported to the hospital and were later released.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindSouth Apopka$1,000Orange County Fire Rescue reported wires down at 1203 West Pine St.
March 2011Thunderstorm WindSouth Apopka-A weather spotter estimated winds over 60 mph downed large trees limbs and powerlines.

Every storm recorded in Orange 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
Apopka1.3 miles13
Plymouth2.9 miles13
Lake Apopka3.1 miles14
Piedmont3.2 miles15
Paradise Heights3.2 miles14
Clarcona3.4 miles15
McDonald4.3 miles13
Lockhart4.6 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 South ApopkaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2341774The 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 291334. 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.