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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.

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

Population over time

3 figures

Crescent 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.

YearPeople Change
2000985
2010931-54 (-5%)
2020844-87 (-9%)

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

151 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural66
Equipment and vehicle use33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning13
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism3
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)
3 August 1996Natural2.0 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 1999Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Johns County

Storms near this place

22 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2002Rip CurrentCrescent Beach1 killed42 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 1998Rip CurrentCrescent Beach1 killedno account filed
May 2016LightningCrescent Beach1 hurtA 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 1997Rip CurrentCrescent Beach1 hurtWomen, 36
February 1997Tornado (F0)Crescent Beach$5,000no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindCrescent Beach$1,500Large trees and power lines were blown down.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindCrescent Beach$1,000St. 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 2025Thunderstorm WindCrescent Beach$1,000Lifeguard stand destroyed near Butler Beach. The time of the event and cost of damage were estimated.
August 2025Heavy RainCrescent Beach-Personal weather station KFLSTAUG1316 measured 2 inches of rain in the last hour.
October 2017FloodCrescent Beach-One foot of standing water was reported inside a pub in Crescent Beach.
March 2012HailCrescent Beach-Quarter size hail was reported along A1A. It dented cars in a restaurant parking lot.
March 2012HailCrescent Beach-Ping pong ball size hail was observed on Coastal Drive in Crescent Beach just south of the FL 206 bridge.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindCrescent Beach-Power lines were damaged which caused power outages near Butler Beach. The time of damage was based on radar.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindCrescent Beach-A large tree was blown down at 1365 State Road 206.
April 2009Tornado (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 2003Funnel CloudCrescent Beach-Funnel along A1A one half mile north of State Road 206.
October 2003HailCrescent Beach-Near interstate 95 ans U.S. Highway 1 interchange in southern St. Johns County.
October 2003Thunderstorm WindCrescent Beach-Billboard and numerous power lines down at the Interstate 95 and U.S. Highway 1 interchange in southern St. Johns County.
September 2001Tornado (F0)Crescent Beach-Weak F0. Moved inland and dissipated rapidly.
September 2001WaterspoutCrescent Beach-Matanzas Inlet.
September 2004Tornado (F0)Crescent Beach-no account filed
September 2001WaterspoutCrescent Beach-no account filed

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
Butler Beach2.2 miles14
Cedar Landing3.1 miles13
Dupont Center3.3 miles14
Fort Matanzas3.8 miles13
Saint Augustine Shores4.2 miles14
Saybrook4.3 miles14
Summer Haven5.1 miles13
Moultrie5.1 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 Crescent BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2580673The 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.