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Vineland, Florida

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Southwest Orange census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32836. The Survey maps it on the Windermere quadrangle.

Vineland within Orange 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 Vineland, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Vineland, surveyed 1953

Compare 1953 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

111 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Vineland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,059 acres in total. 38 started naturally. 25 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
Natural38
Arson/incendiarism25
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Fireworks3
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
3 September 1996Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 1993Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2013Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServicePALM PARKWAY (48)
9 August 1998Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWENDY'S (O4)
20 August 1998Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 August 1998Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Storms near this place

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vineland in 7 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 lightning, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 8 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
August 2011LightningVineland8 hurtA lightning strike hit near the Laguna Restaurant at SeaWorld's Discovery Cove. Three guests on the restaurant patio and five water park staff nearby at an adjacent photo shop were indirectly struck and sustained minor injuries. All persons were examined, treated, and released from local hospitals and urgent care centers.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindVineland$25,000Thunderstorm winds ripped off parts of a back porch roof of a house. The debris damaged a nearby parked car.
May 2022HailVineland-A trained spotter reported quarter-sized hail on Palm Parkway. The spotter reported the hail fell for about 10 minutes. Additional reports of hail occurring at the same time were received near the outlet mall at Vineland Avenue and Interstate 4.
June 2020Funnel CloudVineland-The public reported a funnel cloud between Celebration and Hunters Creek moving north of State Road 417.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindVineland-A mesonet in Bay Lake measured a peak wind gust of 63 mph.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindVineland-The public reported several large trees down at the Grand Cypress Golf Club Resort.
June 1999HailVineland-no account filed

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
Lake Buena Vista1.9 miles11
Buena Vista2.0 miles13
Bay Lake3.4 miles11
Williamsburg3.5 miles12
Doctor Phillips3.8 miles12
Hunters Creek4.9 miles13
Bay Hill5.1 miles11
Tangelo Park5.2 miles12

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 VinelandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7932435The 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 295689. 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.