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Woodruff Springs, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Sanford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32771. The Survey maps it on the Sanford quadrangle.

Woodruff Springs within Seminole County

Then and now

1955 to 1979

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 Woodruff Springs, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Woodruff Springs, surveyed 1955

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

85 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Woodruff Springs between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,473 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 6 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 maintenance28
Natural28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism6
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
18 September 2008Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2008-10-0738
25 August 2000Natural8.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 July 1992Natural40 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 July 2004Natural40 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 July 2012Natural7.7 acresFlorida Forest ServiceFORT FLORIDA (64)
5 July 1993Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 July 1996Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 July 2011Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceNOWHERE (59)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Seminole County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Woodruff Springs: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Dot Oviedo - Oviedo #1 MineSandUnknown

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
Wilson Place0.5 miles14
Wilson Corner1.0 miles14
Alderene Park1.1 miles14
Saint Josephs1.2 miles14
Sylvan Lake1.3 miles14
The Retreat at Twin Lakes1.3 miles14
Paola1.4 miles14
Sanford Farms1.4 miles14

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.

Wikidata item Q122591864The 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 293518. 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.