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Atlantic Beach, Florida

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Jacksonville Beaches census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32233. The Survey maps it on the Jacksonville Beach quadrangle. 13,513 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Atlantic Beach within Duval County

Then and now

1918 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Atlantic Beach, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Atlantic Beach, surveyed 1918

Compare 1918 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Atlantic Beach grew from 12,655 to 13,513 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
201012,655
202013,513+858 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 26 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

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Atlantic Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 208 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 12 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
Equipment and vehicle use24
Arson/incendiarism12
Natural4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Debris and open burning1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
16 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 July 2012Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceEVERGREEN (16)
31 July 1996Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 July 1993Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 June 1993Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 June 1993Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 June 2006Naturalunder an acreNational Forests in FloridaCHICKEN
20 June 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Duval County

Storms near this place

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Atlantic Beach in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 3 heavy rain, 2 rip current, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. The reports record 1 death and 3 injuries. 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
March 2004Rip CurrentAtlantic Beach1 killedno account filed
July 2015LightningAtlantic Beach2 hurtA lightning strike indirectly injured 2 people at a restaurant in Jacksonville Beach off of Atlantic Blvd.
August 1996Rip CurrentAtlantic Beach1 hurtno account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindAtlantic Beach-Severe thunderstorm damage occurred to utility equipment in Neptune Beach between First and 2nd Street, just north of 3rd Street. The time of damage was based on radar.
September 2023Heavy RainAtlantic Beach-A public weather station just west of Atlantic Beach Elementary School measured storm total rainfall of 4.65 inches by 8 pm. Other public weather stations in the area measured 3-4.5 inches of daily rainfall.
August 2022Heavy RainAtlantic Beach-The mesonet station GW1721 measured 2.20 inches of rainfall. Most of this rainfall occurred in the afternoon.
October 2021Funnel CloudAtlantic Beach-A funnel cloud was observed near Neptune Beach.
September 2014Heavy RainAtlantic Beach-A station measured 3.23 since midnight.
April 2010HailAtlantic Beach-Dime to quarter size hail was observed in Atlantic Beach.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindAtlantic Beach-Power lines were blown down across Jacksonville Beach.

Every storm recorded in Duval 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
Donner0.7 miles26
Neptune Beach1.6 miles26
Manhattan Beach2.2 miles26
Oak Harbor2.3 miles26
Wonderwood2.5 miles26
Jacksonville Beach2.8 miles26
Greenfield2.8 miles26
Holiday Harbor3.1 miles26

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 Atlantic BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q514250The 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 277982. 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.

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.