Yellow Bluff, Florida

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It lies in ZIP code area 32134. The Survey maps it on the Salt Springs quadrangle.

Yellow Bluff within Lake County

Then and now

1954 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 40 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Yellow Bluff, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Yellow Bluff, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1954 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Salt Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1994 USGS Salt Springs quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

61 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Yellow Bluff between 1992 and 2019, burning about 7,077 acres in total. 21 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
Natural	21
Recreation and ceremony	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Debris and open burning	7
Arson/incendiarism	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6

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
16 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	National Forests in Florida	BEAR CREEK
4 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	National Forests in Florida	HOPKINS
19 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	National Forests in Florida	not named
18 August 1999	Natural	2.0 acres	National Forests in Florida	BILLS BRANCH
14 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	National Forests in Florida	DAVENPORT
14 August 1993	Natural	10 acres	National Forests in Florida	not named
8 July 1999	Natural	227 acres	National Forests in Florida	BILL'S BRANCH
3 July 2000	Natural	2.0 acres	National Forests in Florida	YELLOW BLUFF

Every fire recorded in Lake 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
Astor Park	9.2 miles	9
Astor	10.0 miles	9
Manhatten	11.6 miles	9
Camp Ocala	11.6 miles	9
Alexander Springs	13.9 miles	8
Mosquito Grove	17.7 miles	10
Pittman	19.1 miles	14
Lake Kathryn	19.7 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 307050. 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.