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Casa Cola, Florida

13 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 32095. It stands on Casa Cola Creek. The Survey maps it on the Saint Augustine quadrangle.

Casa Cola 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 Casa Cola, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Casa Cola, surveyed 1937

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

193 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 193 fires within 5 miles of Casa Cola between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,573 acres in total. 49 started naturally. 20 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 use52
Natural49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Arson/incendiarism20
Recreation and ceremony15
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Debris and open burning4
Smoking2
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
8 September 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWINN DIXIE (55)
5 September 2020Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSAN SEBASTIAN (55)
5 September 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceTWELVE MILE SWAMP #3 (55)
15 September 1994Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Casa Cola: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand. 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
St. Johns Co. Rd. and Bridge - Woodlawn PitSandProducer

Every working recorded in St. Johns County

Storms near this place

8 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Casa Cola in 8 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 2 lightning, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2009LightningCasa Cola$10,000A roof fire was ignited by lightning in the eagle Creek sub-division east of U.S. Highway 1. A woman and a young child escaped through a bedroom window after smoke alarms woke the family. Her husband and two other young children escaped through the front door. A family dog was also rescued and treated with a pet oxygen mask after it was found inside the house. The worst damage from the fire was to the attic above the garage, though smoke penetrated the rest of the house.
May 2013LightningCasa Cola$500Lightning struck the St. Augustine Regional Airport runway which caused damage to a 5 foot by 6 foot area of the runway. That section of the runway was closed due to needed repairs. The cost of damage was estimated.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindCasa Cola-Power lines were blown down on Pine Circle West. The time of damage was based on radar.
September 2023FloodCasa Cola-Significant flooding, including inundation into at least 2 homes at the time of the report, occurred along and east of U.S. Highway 1 near Palencia. Flood water covered neighborhood roads north of the St. Augustine Airport to Palencia. The 2 homes that were flooded at the time of the report were along Palmetto Drive. Radar and ground truth rainfall measurements were 6-8 inches across these areas over 2 hours. There was also street flooding reported in historic downtown St Augustine along Cordova St a known flood-prone area.
February 2021HailCasa Cola-Quarter size hail was observed just north of the St. Augustine airport. The time of the event was based on radar data.
July 2021FloodCasa Cola-The southbound lanes of U.S. Highway 1 were flooded near the intersection of US Highway 1 and Venetian Blvd near a construction zone.
September 2020Heavy RainCasa Cola-The St. Augustine airport AWOS measured 2.80 inches within 3 hours.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindCasa Cola-Trees and power lines were blown down near 6281 Old Dixie Drive in St. Augustine.

Every storm 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
Araquey1.8 miles13
Usina Beach2.6 miles13
Woodlawn2.8 miles13
South Ponte Vedra Beach3.7 miles18
El Rey Residential Court3.9 miles13
Vilano Beach4.6 miles13
Nombre de Dios (historical)5.2 miles13
Saint Augustine5.6 miles13

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 Q122597349The 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 307909. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.