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Coquina Gables, 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 lies near Anastasia Island. The Survey maps it on the Saint Augustine Beach quadrangle.

Coquina Gables 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 Coquina Gables, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Coquina Gables, surveyed 1937

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

137 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Coquina Gables between 1992 and 2020, burning about 417 acres in total. 35 started naturally. 16 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
Natural35
Equipment and vehicle use31
Arson/incendiarism16
Recreation and ceremony15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Debris and open burning7
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
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
6 September 1999Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2000Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 September 1993Natural75 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 September 1993Natural75 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCHERRY TREE RD (55)
8 August 2008Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF SR 207
7 August 2006Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF-DOBBS RD.
31 August 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida 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 Coquina Gables: 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
Saint Augustine Beach0.5 miles14
Saint Augustine South2.6 miles14
Butler Beach3.1 miles14
Saint Augustine Shores3.3 miles14
Anastasia3.3 miles13
Moultrie3.4 miles14
Davis Shores4.1 miles13
Saint Augustine4.4 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 Q122554559The 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 307922. 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.