Crescent Beach, Florida
14 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 32080. It stands on Moses Creek. The Survey maps it on the Saint Augustine Beach quadrangle. 844 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Then and now
1937 to 1981The 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.


Population over time
3 figuresCrescent Beach fell from 985 to 844 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 985 | |
| 2010 | 931 | -54 (-5%) |
| 2020 | 844 | -87 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1937 USGS Crescent Beach quadrangle1:24000
- 1943 USGS St. Augustine quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS St. Augustine Beach quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Saint Augustine quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
151 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Crescent Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,104 acres in total. 66 started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 66 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 33 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Debris and open burning | 13 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 26 September 1993 | Natural | 75 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 8 August 2008 | Natural | 3.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | WF- EVANS GRADE |
| 7 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | CLEAR CUT (55) |
| 3 August 1996 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 3 August 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 28 August 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 25 August 1999 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
22 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crescent Beach in 22 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 3 rip current, 3 hail. The reports record 2 deaths and 2 injuries. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2002 | Rip Current | Crescent Beach | 1 killed | 42 Year old man attempted to rescue children and was caught in a rip current. Taken to Flagler Hospital and died on 03/25/02. |
| August 1998 | Rip Current | Crescent Beach | 1 killed | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Lightning | Crescent Beach | 1 hurt | A citizen was standing on a balcony in a residential section between Butler Beach and Crescent Beach and was struck by lightning. The victim was in critical condition at the hospital. |
| August 1997 | Rip Current | Crescent Beach | 1 hurt | Women, 36 |
| February 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Crescent Beach | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crescent Beach | $1,500 | Large trees and power lines were blown down. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crescent Beach | $1,000 | St. Johns County Fire Rescue reported several power lines and trees down in Butler Beach. There was no structure damage or power outages were reported. The cost of the damage was unknown, but it was estimated for inclusion in Storm Data. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crescent Beach | $1,000 | Lifeguard stand destroyed near Butler Beach. The time of the event and cost of damage were estimated. |
| August 2025 | Heavy Rain | Crescent Beach | - | Personal weather station KFLSTAUG1316 measured 2 inches of rain in the last hour. |
| October 2017 | Flood | Crescent Beach | - | One foot of standing water was reported inside a pub in Crescent Beach. |
| March 2012 | Hail | Crescent Beach | - | Quarter size hail was reported along A1A. It dented cars in a restaurant parking lot. |
| March 2012 | Hail | Crescent Beach | - | Ping pong ball size hail was observed on Coastal Drive in Crescent Beach just south of the FL 206 bridge. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crescent Beach | - | Power lines were damaged which caused power outages near Butler Beach. The time of damage was based on radar. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crescent Beach | - | A large tree was blown down at 1365 State Road 206. |
| April 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Crescent Beach | - | A tornado caused damage to homes on Gassett Road with part of a roof blown off a house and a wood fence was blown into a yard. |
| April 2003 | Funnel Cloud | Crescent Beach | - | Funnel along A1A one half mile north of State Road 206. |
| October 2003 | Hail | Crescent Beach | - | Near interstate 95 ans U.S. Highway 1 interchange in southern St. Johns County. |
| October 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crescent Beach | - | Billboard and numerous power lines down at the Interstate 95 and U.S. Highway 1 interchange in southern St. Johns County. |
| September 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Crescent Beach | - | Weak F0. Moved inland and dissipated rapidly. |
| September 2001 | Waterspout | Crescent Beach | - | Matanzas Inlet. |
| September 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Crescent Beach | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Waterspout | Crescent Beach | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Butler Beach | 2.2 miles | 14 | |
| Cedar Landing | 3.1 miles | 13 | |
| Dupont Center | 3.3 miles | 14 | |
| Fort Matanzas | 3.8 miles | 13 | |
| Saint Augustine Shores | 4.2 miles | 14 | |
| Saybrook | 4.3 miles | 14 | |
| Summer Haven | 5.1 miles | 13 | |
| Moultrie | 5.1 miles | 14 |
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 Crescent Beach | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2580673 | The 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 307927. 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.
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.






