Biltmore, Florida

21 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 32210. It stands on Wills Branch. The Survey maps it on the Jacksonville quadrangle.

Biltmore 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 Biltmore, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Biltmore, surveyed 1918

Compare 1918 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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.

1918 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1948 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1977 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:100000
1980 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1994 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

122 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Biltmore between 1992 and 2020, burning about 368 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 15 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	38
Misuse of fire by a minor	28
Arson/incendiarism	15
Natural	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	10
Debris and open burning	7
Recreation and ceremony	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	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
7 September 1999	Natural	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
25 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	2003-07-1098
2 September 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
17 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
17 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
7 August 2016	Natural	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	LANE SWAMP (16)
29 August 2016	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	NORMANDY LANE (16)
22 August 2016	Railroad operations and maintenance	6.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	IMESON RD (16)

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lake Shore	0.7 miles	21
Hyde Park	0.9 miles	21
Cedar Hills Estates	0.9 miles	21
Saint Johns Park	1.1 miles	21
Hyde Grove	1.3 miles	21
Lackawanna	1.5 miles	21
Avondale	1.7 miles	21
Cedar Hills	1.8 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 300965. 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.