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Beeghly Heights, Florida

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Jacksonville North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32218. The Survey maps it on the Trout River quadrangle.

Beeghly Heights 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 Beeghly Heights, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Beeghly Heights, surveyed 1918

Compare 1918 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

157 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 157 fires within 5 miles of Beeghly Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,564 acres in total. 36 started naturally. 31 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
Natural36
Equipment and vehicle use34
Arson/incendiarism31
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Debris and open burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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 1999Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceYOUNIS RD (16)
15 September 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service2003-07-1084
10 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2000Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2001Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2001Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Duval 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 Beeghly Heights: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Louis L. Huntley - Huntley Farm Pond Ex MineClayUnknown

Every working 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
Oceanway2.8 miles22
Duval2.8 miles24
Pecan Park3.1 miles22
Garden City3.7 miles22
San Mateo3.9 miles22
Northwood4.0 miles22
Tisonia4.1 miles22
Joels Landing4.2 miles20

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 Q122549788The 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 295123. 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.