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Williamsburg, Florida

12 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 32821. The Survey maps it on the Lake Jessamine quadrangle. 7,908 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 89 feet above sea level.

Williamsburg 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 Williamsburg, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Williamsburg, surveyed 1953

Compare 1953 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Williamsburg grew from 7,646 to 7,908 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
20107,646
20207,908+262 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

137 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Williamsburg between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,807 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 30 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
Railroad operations and maintenance34
Arson/incendiarism30
Natural29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use12
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
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
6 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
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
7 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Morningside Park2.8 miles12
Tangelo Park2.9 miles12
Vineland3.5 miles11
Southchase3.5 miles12
Doctor Phillips3.6 miles12
Hunters Creek3.9 miles13
Sky Lake4.0 miles12
Oak Ridge4.0 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 WilliamsburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2139218The 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 1867237. 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.