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Dames Point Manor, Florida

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Jacksonville North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32226. It lies near Bartram Island. The Survey maps it on the Eastport quadrangle.

Dames Point Manor within Duval County

Then and now

1918 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Dames Point Manor, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Dames Point Manor, surveyed 1918

Compare 1918 against another survey:

On record in Dames Point Manor

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 24 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

66 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Dames Point Manor between 1992 and 2020, burning about 550 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 8 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 use23
Natural16
Arson/incendiarism8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Other causes2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1

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
24 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use12 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2000Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 August 1994Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 August 1995Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 August 2016Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceZOO (16)
22 July 2020Naturalunder an acreTimucuan Ecological & Historic PreserveGREEN TRAIL
22 July 1993Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 July 1998Natural8.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Duval 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 Dames Point Manor: 1 past producer, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Thorium, Titanium, Zirconium, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
A C Skinner DepositThorium, Titanium, ZirconiumPast Producer
U S Gypsum/ Jacksonville, Fla.Gypsum-AnhydritePlant

Every working recorded in Duval 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
Yellow Bluff Fort0.6 miles24
Dames Point0.7 miles24
New Berlin0.8 miles24
Newcastle2.0 miles23
Quinlan2.2 miles24
Gilmore2.2 miles23
Eastport2.5 miles24
Chaseville2.6 miles24

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 Q122541297The 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 295011. 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.