Valdez is an unincorporated community[2] located in southwest Volusia County, Florida, within the city limits of DeBary.

Valdez is located along U.S. Highway 17-92 (Charles Richard Beall Blvd.)

where it intersects with Barwick Road, just north of the St. Johns River.

[3] He chose one of his protégés, Lt. Jose del Rio Cossa, to conduct an exploratory survey of Florida's naval store resources.

Although this name did not persist, pre-American land deeds referred to what is now Lake Monroe as Valdez.