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Zellwood, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Apopka census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32798. The Survey maps it on the Apopka quadrangle. 2,758 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 98 feet above sea level.

Zellwood within Orange 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 Zellwood, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Zellwood, surveyed 1955

On record in Zellwood

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Zellwood fell from 2,817 to 2,758 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
20102,817
20202,758-59 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

67 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Zellwood between 1992 and 2018, burning about 961 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 9 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 maintenance30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Arson/incendiarism9
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes1
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
18 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 July 2017Natural15 acresFlorida Forest ServiceFUDGE(48)
8 July 1995Railroad operations and maintenance7.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2000Railroad operations and maintenance60 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 July 1998Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 June 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePITT (4)
23 June 2007Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTREETOP (04)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange 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 Zellwood: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand, Clay. 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
Codding Sand and Soil Co. - Codding PitSandProducer
Warren PitClayPast Producer
Plymouth PitClay, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Plymouth PitClay, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Zellwood in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2001: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 1999Thunderstorm WindZellwood$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines in Apopka and Zellwood.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindZellwood-Thunderstorm winds blew down trees in the Zellwood area.
March 2001HailZellwood-no account filed
May 1999HailZellwood-no account filed
March 1996HailZellwood-no account filed

Every storm 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
Merrimac2.1 miles13
McDonald2.6 miles13
Oak Tree Park2.7 miles13
Tangerine2.8 miles12
Bay Ridge2.8 miles13
Plymouth3.9 miles13
Mount Plymouth Lakes5.0 miles13
Apopka6.0 miles13

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 ZellwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2048252The 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 293615. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.