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West DeLand, Florida

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the DeLand census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32720. The Survey maps it on the DeLand quadrangle. 3,908 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 49 feet above sea level.

West DeLand within Volusia County

Then and now

1954 to 1978

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 West DeLand, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of West DeLand, surveyed 1954

On record in West DeLand

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 2 records

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

Population over time

2 figures

West DeLand grew from 3,535 to 3,908 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
20103,535
20203,908+373 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

178 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of West DeLand between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,267 acres in total. 43 started naturally. 13 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
Natural43
Equipment and vehicle use40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Recreation and ceremony14
Arson/incendiarism13
Debris and open burning12
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Other causes5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSPRING GARDEN (64)
5 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceTOMAHAWK TRAIL (35)
5 September 2014Naturalunder an acreNational Forests in FloridaFERNANDEZ 14
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresFlorida Forest ServiceU.T. ROAD (64)
17 September 1997Arson/incendiarism50 acresLake Woodruff National Wildlife RefugeHOT TIME
8 August 2011Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(35) CUMMER
8 August 2008Natural1.7 acresNational Forests in FloridaFERNANDEZ
5 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWF WAR ADMIRAL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Beresford1.2 miles10
DeLand1.8 miles10
Riverside2.1 miles14
Fatio2.4 miles14
Daisy Lake2.5 miles10
North DeLand3.0 miles10
Tallahasse - Yuchi (historical)3.9 miles10
Cypress Lake Estates4.9 miles10

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 West DeLandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2563735The 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 1867229. 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.