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Butler Beach, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the St. Augustine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32080. It stands on San Julian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Saint Augustine Beach quadrangle. 4,978 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.

Butler Beach within St. Johns County

Then and now

1937 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 44 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Butler Beach, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Butler Beach, surveyed 1937

Population over time

3 figures

Butler Beach grew from 4,436 to 4,978 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20004,436
20104,951+515 (+12%)
20204,978+27 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

148 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Butler Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,670 acres in total. 58 started naturally. 4 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
Natural58
Equipment and vehicle use33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Debris and open burning13
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks1

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
5 September 2000Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 September 1993Natural75 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2008Natural3.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF- EVANS GRADE
7 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceCLEAR CUT (55)
31 August 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 August 1996Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 August 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 August 1997Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Johns County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Butler Beach: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Anastasia Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mclead Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Johns 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
Crescent Beach2.2 miles14
Saint Augustine Shores2.5 miles14
Coquina Gables3.1 miles14
Moultrie3.3 miles14
Saint Augustine Beach3.6 miles14
Dupont Center3.8 miles14
Saybrook3.9 miles14
Saint Augustine South4.0 miles14

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.

Wikipedia article on Butler BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2304580The 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 1867122. 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.