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Cedar Landing, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Matanzas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32086. The Survey maps it on the Dinner Island NE quadrangle.

Cedar Landing 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 Cedar Landing, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Cedar Landing, surveyed 1937

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

141 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Landing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,195 acres in total. 87 started naturally. 1 was 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
Natural87
Equipment and vehicle use15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Debris and open burning13
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
26 September 1993Natural75 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWF RAYONIER PIT
8 August 2008Natural3.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF- EVANS GRADE
7 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceCLEAR CUT (55)
3 August 1999Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 August 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 August 2002Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 August 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWF- 95 MILE MARKER 300

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Fort Matanzas1.0 miles13
Summer Haven2.4 miles13
Crescent Beach3.1 miles14
Dupont Center3.9 miles14
Butler Beach5.2 miles14
Saybrook5.6 miles14
Saint Augustine Shores6.7 miles14
Moultrie7.6 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 307914. 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.