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.
Then and now
1952 to 1978The 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.


Compare 1952 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresSouth 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 12,252 | |
| 2020 | 12,865 | +613 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1952 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:24000, 7 printings
- 1954 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
129 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 46 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 19 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 13 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2007 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | WF- BEVILLE ROAD |
| 18 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | WF VILLAGE LANE-0739 |
| 30 August 2004 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | HOMELESS FIRE |
| 3 August 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 25 August 2007 | Natural | 258 acres | Florida Forest Service | WF- CAMPSITE/OLD PIONEER RD. |
| 25 August 1996 | Natural | 10 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 21 August 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 21 August 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Daytona | $35,000 | no account filed |
| March 2021 | Hail | South 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 2004 | Tornado (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. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daytona Beach Shores | 1.3 miles | 14 | |
| Blake | 1.8 miles | 13 | |
| Port Orange | 2.0 miles | 14 | |
| Halifax Estates | 2.4 miles | 14 | |
| Pickwick Village | 2.9 miles | 13 | |
| Daytona Beach | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Allandale | 3.4 miles | 16 | |
| Wilbur-by-the-Sea | 3.4 miles | 14 |
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 Daytona | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2151592 | The 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.




