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Brightsville, Florida

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Jacksonville West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32220. The Survey maps it on the Marietta quadrangle.

Brightsville 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 Brightsville, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Brightsville, surveyed 1917

Compare 1917 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.

Fires near this place

226 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 226 fires within 5 miles of Brightsville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,867 acres in total. 41 started naturally. 30 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 use66
Natural41
Arson/incendiarism30
Misuse of fire by a minor26
Railroad operations and maintenance23
Debris and open burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking3
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 1999Natural11 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 August 1999Railroad operations and maintenance3.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 August 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 August 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 August 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceGRASS RUNWAY (16)
17 August 2004Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSTAR LEAF #1 2004-07-0260
17 August 2004Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSTAR LEAF #2 2004-07-0259

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 Brightsville: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium. 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
Unnamed Titanium DepositTitaniumProspect

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
Whitehouse0.5 miles21
Halsema0.9 miles21
Mandeville2.3 miles19
Otis2.4 miles19
Cambon3.0 miles21
Caleb3.3 miles21
Marietta3.7 miles21
Langmar4.6 miles21

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 Q122549978The 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 301062. 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.