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South Daytona, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Port Orange census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32119. It lies near Pelican Island. The Survey maps it on the Daytona Beach quadrangle. 12,865 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

South Daytona 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 South Daytona, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of South Daytona, surveyed 1952

Compare 1952 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

South Daytona grew from 12,252 to 12,865 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
201012,252
202012,865+613 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

129 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of South Daytona between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,269 acres in total. 46 started naturally. 19 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
Natural46
Arson/incendiarism19
Equipment and vehicle use15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Recreation and ceremony10
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Debris and open burning1

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
5 September 2007Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF- BEVILLE ROAD
18 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWF VILLAGE LANE-0739
30 August 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHOMELESS FIRE
3 August 1992Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 August 2007Natural258 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF- CAMPSITE/OLD PIONEER RD.
25 August 1996Natural10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 August 1999Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 August 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Volusia County

Storms near this place

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Daytona in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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
June 1996Thunderstorm WindSouth Daytona$35,000no account filed
March 2021HailSouth Daytona-Numerous pictures received from the public via social media of hail up to quarter size in Daytona Beach and Daytona Beach Gardens. In some areas the hail there were several inches of small hail that accumulated.
August 2004Tornado (F1)South Daytona-An F1 tornado associated with an outer rainband of Hurricane Charley touched down South Daytona Beach destroying one home and damaging eight others, mostly due to fallen trees. The roof was torn off a strip mall store and a service station fire was started when the tornado destroyed two gas pumps and the canopy over the service island.

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
Daytona Beach Shores1.3 miles14
Blake1.8 miles13
Port Orange2.0 miles14
Halifax Estates2.4 miles14
Pickwick Village2.9 miles13
Daytona Beach3.3 miles13
Allandale3.4 miles16
Wilbur-by-the-Sea3.4 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 South DaytonaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2151592The 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 291367. 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.