Wilbur-by-the-Sea, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the South Peninsula census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32127. The Survey maps it on the Port Orange quadrangle.

Wilbur-by-the-Sea within Volusia County

Then and now

1937 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 41 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Wilbur-by-the-Sea, surveyed 1978

Topographic sheet of Wilbur-by-the-Sea, surveyed 1937

Compare 1937 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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.

1937 USGS Port Orange quadrangle1:48000
1943 USGS Port Orange quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Port Orange quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Port Orange quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Port Orange quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS New Smyrna Beach quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

59 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Wilbur-by-the-Sea between 1992 and 2020, burning about 346 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 7 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	19
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Arson/incendiarism	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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
3 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	WF-64-SPRUCE CREEK PRESERVE
3 August 1992	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
17 August 2013	Natural	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	ART CENTER (64)
14 August 1997	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
9 July 2012	Natural	40 acres	Florida Forest Service	ROSEBAY 3 (64)
9 July 2012	Natural	40 acres	Florida Forest Service	ROSE BAY #2 (64)
9 July 2012	Natural	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	ROSE BAY #1 (64)
7 July 1998	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Allandale	1.2 miles	16
Halifax Estates	1.2 miles	14
Harbor Oaks	1.7 miles	16
Port Orange	2.1 miles	14
Ponce Inlet	2.6 miles	16
Daytona Beach Shores	3.4 miles	14
South Daytona	3.4 miles	13
Ponce Park	4.0 miles	16

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 Wilbur-by-the-Sea	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5307088	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 293276. 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.