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Winter Springs, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Casselberry-Altamonte Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32708. It stands on Soldier Creek. The Survey maps it on the Casselberry quadrangle. 38,342 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 52 feet above sea level.

Winter Springs within Seminole County

Then and now

1955 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 39 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Winter Springs, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Winter Springs, surveyed 1955

Compare 1955 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Winter Springs grew from 33,282 to 38,342 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
201033,282
202038,342+5,060 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

65 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Winter Springs between 1992 and 2019, burning about 266 acres in total. 1 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
Railroad operations and maintenance48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
19 August 1998Railroad operations and maintenance20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 August 1992Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 July 1992Railroad operations and maintenance20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 July 1992Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 June 2000Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 June 1998Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Seminole County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Winter Springs: 2 producers, 2 unknowns. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Seminole 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
Wagner1.4 miles15
Longdale1.6 miles15
Longwood1.6 miles15
Casselberry1.8 miles15
Clifton2.2 miles15
Midway Park2.6 miles15
Elder Springs3.0 miles15
Evansdale3.5 miles15

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 Winter SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2152383The 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 287843. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.