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American Beach, Florida

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Fernandina Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32034. It stands on Harrison Creek. The Survey maps it on the Amelia City quadrangle.

American Beach within Nassau County

Then and now

1919 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of American Beach, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of American Beach, surveyed 1919

On record in American Beach

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 3 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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

44 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of American Beach between 1993 and 2018, burning about 230 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 7 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
Natural13
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning5
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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
7 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceBUCCANEER (45)
19 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2003-07-1089
4 August 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceFRANK WARD RD (45)
4 August 2006Natural25 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBIG TALBOT FIRE 2006-07-0268
18 August 2011Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceFLATWOODS TRAIL (45)
18 August 2000Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2015Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceINDEPENDENCE (45)
4 July 2015Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceINDEPENDENCE 2 (45)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of American Beach: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium-Heavy Minerals. 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
Amelia Island PlacerTitanium-Heavy MineralsOccurrenceMonazite, Zircon, Rutile, Ilmenite

Every working recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names American Beach in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2004: 1 waterspout, 1 funnel cloud. 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
September 2004Funnel CloudAmerican Beach-no account filed
July 1998WaterspoutAmerican Beach-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nassau 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
Amelia City1.3 miles21
Franklintown1.3 miles21
Nassauville4.0 miles22
O'Neil4.7 miles22
Fernandina Beach6.6 miles22
Glenwood7.4 miles23
Old Fernandina7.9 miles22
Hedges8.4 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 277835. 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.