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Beverly Hills, Florida

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Jacksonville West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32208. It stands on West Branch Blockhouse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Trout River quadrangle.

Beverly Hills 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 Beverly Hills, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Beverly Hills, 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

105 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Beverly Hills between 1992 and 2019, burning about 552 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 21 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 use33
Arson/incendiarism21
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Natural10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony7
Debris and open burning6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
14 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2000Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2016Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLANE SWAMP (16)
18 August 1993Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 July 2003Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresFlorida Forest Service2003-07-1032
3 July 2011Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePRITCHARD RAMP (16)
3 July 1998Naturalunder an acreFlorida 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 Beverly Hills: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Kaiser Cement & Gypsum/JacksonvilleGypsum-Anhydrite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPlant

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
Sherwood Forest0.9 miles22
Harbor View1.0 miles22
Ribault Manor1.1 miles22
Riverview1.1 miles22
Lake Park Estates1.8 miles22
Biscayne Village1.8 miles22
Highlands1.9 miles22
Dinsmore2.0 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 278601. 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.