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Beauclerc Gardens, Florida

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Jacksonville East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32257. It sits by Beauclerc Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Orange Park quadrangle.

Beauclerc Gardens within Duval County

Then and now

1917 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Beauclerc Gardens, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Beauclerc Gardens, surveyed 1917

Compare 1917 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 24 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

67 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Beauclerc Gardens between 1992 and 2018, burning about 331 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 9 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 use17
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Natural13
Arson/incendiarism9
Debris and open burning5
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
30 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceROOSEVELT BLVD (16)
3 August 1999Natural13 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 August 1999Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 July 1992Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 July 1993Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 June 1996Natural10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 June 1993Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Beauclerc0.1 miles24
Plummers0.7 miles24
Goodbys0.8 miles22
Sunbeam2.9 miles22
Mandarin3.0 miles24
San Jose3.1 miles22
East Mandarin3.2 miles24
Marshall Plantation (historical)3.5 miles24

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.

Wikidata item Q122566138The 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 278357. 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.