North DeLand, FL

North DeLand is a Volusia County census-designated place counted separately from the city of DeLand. The Census counted 1,510 residents here in 2020, while DeLand’s local history reaches back to a December 1876 meeting in John Rich’s cabin, when settlers chose the name for Henry Addison DeLand. The older label was Persimmon Hollow, and the city grew around DeLand’s plans for schools, churches, and civic buildings. Read on the map, North DeLand is part of the DeLand-area setting, with the city’s older story supplying the clearest regional context. The local shorthand is North DeLand, DeLand history, and Volusia County.