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South Port, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Kissimmee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34759. The Survey maps it on the Saint Cloud South quadrangle.

South Port within Osceola County

Then and now

1953 to 1979

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 Port, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of South Port, surveyed 1953

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of South Port between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,622 acres in total. 10 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
Natural10
Debris and open burning7
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
24 September 1992Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use40 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use30 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 August 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service53 ROUGH ISLAND
3 July 2020Natural65 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTWO STRIKE FIRE (49)
26 July 2011Natural51 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTOHO FLATWOODS (O6)
19 July 1999Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 July 2007Natural18 acresFlorida Forest ServiceREPEAT (06)

Every fire recorded in Osceola County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Port in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
March 2016Thunderstorm WindSouth Port$10,000Public reports indicated roof damage to manufactured homes within the Cypress Cove Nudist Resort in Poinciana. About a mile southwest of Cypress Cove, roofing material lifted off homes, scattered pine trees were downed or leaning significantly and numerous fence panels were scattered about. Some of this debris caused damage to cars.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindSouth Port-A mesonet at the south end of Lake Tohopekaliga measured a peak wind gust of 63 mph from the north-northeast.
June 2013Heavy RainSouth Port-South Florida Water Management District station S61W (SWOF1) recorded 5.08 of rain during Tropical Storm Andrea.

Every storm recorded in Osceola 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
Poinciana5.6 miles12
Poinciana Place7.1 miles12
Saint Cloud8.5 miles12
Ashton9.4 miles13
Campbell10.0 miles13
Kissimmee11.0 miles13
Tohopikaliga (historical)11.0 miles14
Runnymede11.4 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 294931. 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.