page_title: Volusia County, Florida
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Volusia County, Florida / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Avenue of Moss-Covered Oaks, Near Ormond, Florida, a duotone print from James W. Buel, America's Wonderlands, 1893; Historical Publishing Company, Philadelphia, PA.
context_page_description: Volusia County is located in the east-central part of the U.S. state of Florida, stretching between the St. Johns River and the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010 census, the county was home to 494,593 people, an increase of 11.6% from 2000. It was founded on December 29, 1854, from part of Orange County, and was named for the community of Volusia, located in northwestern Volusia County. Its first county seat was Enterprise. Since 1887, its county seat has been DeLand.
  Volusia County is part of the Deltona–Daytona Beach–Ormond Beach metropolitan statistical area, and is also part of the larger Orlando–Deltona–Daytona Beach combined statistical area.
context_section_description: According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,432 square miles (3,710 km²), of which 1,101 square miles (2,850 km²) are land and 331 square miles (860 km²) (23.1%) are covered by water.
  Volusia County is bordered on the west by the St. Johns River and Lake Monroe, and by the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Roughly the size of Rhode Island, Volusia is situated 50 mi (80 km) northeast of Orlando, 60 mi (97 km) north of the Kennedy Space Center, and 89 mi (143 km) south of Jacksonville.
caption: Avenue of Moss-Covered Oaks, Near Ormond, Florida -- an 1893 duotone print
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