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.
Then and now
1918 to 1994The 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.


Compare 1918 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresAtlantic 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 12,655 | |
| 2020 | 13,513 | +858 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 26 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1918 USGS Mayport quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1948 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Jacksonville Beach quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1949 USGS Jacksonville Beach quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Jacksonville Beach quadrangle1:24000, 7 printings
- 1977 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Jacksonville Beach quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
49 since 1992Regional 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 use | 24 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 12 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 5 July 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | EVERGREEN (16) |
| 31 July 1996 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 11 July 1993 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 6 June 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 5 June 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 23 June 2006 | Natural | under an acre | National Forests in Florida | CHICKEN |
| 20 June 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2004 | Rip Current | Atlantic Beach | 1 killed | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Lightning | Atlantic Beach | 2 hurt | A lightning strike indirectly injured 2 people at a restaurant in Jacksonville Beach off of Atlantic Blvd. |
| August 1996 | Rip Current | Atlantic Beach | 1 hurt | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlantic 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 2023 | Heavy Rain | Atlantic 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 2022 | Heavy Rain | Atlantic Beach | - | The mesonet station GW1721 measured 2.20 inches of rainfall. Most of this rainfall occurred in the afternoon. |
| October 2021 | Funnel Cloud | Atlantic Beach | - | A funnel cloud was observed near Neptune Beach. |
| September 2014 | Heavy Rain | Atlantic Beach | - | A station measured 3.23 since midnight. |
| April 2010 | Hail | Atlantic Beach | - | Dime to quarter size hail was observed in Atlantic Beach. |
| September 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlantic Beach | - | Power lines were blown down across Jacksonville Beach. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Donner | 0.7 miles | 26 | |
| Neptune Beach | 1.6 miles | 26 | |
| Manhattan Beach | 2.2 miles | 26 | |
| Oak Harbor | 2.3 miles | 26 | |
| Wonderwood | 2.5 miles | 26 | |
| Jacksonville Beach | 2.8 miles | 26 | |
| Greenfield | 2.8 miles | 26 | |
| Holiday Harbor | 3.1 miles | 26 |
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 Beach | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q514250 | The 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.











