Dewey Park, Florida

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Jacksonville West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32244. The Survey maps it on the Orange Park quadrangle.

Dewey Park within Duval County

Then and now

1917 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Dewey Park, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Dewey Park, surveyed 1917

Compare 1917 against another survey:

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.

1917 USGS Orange Park quadrangle1:62500
1918 USGS Orange Park quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1948 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1952 USGS Orange Park quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Orange Park quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1977 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:100000
1980 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1993 USGS Orange Park quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1994 USGS Orange Park quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

103 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Dewey Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 494 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 17 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 use	28
Misuse of fire by a minor	22
Arson/incendiarism	17
Natural	14
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Debris and open burning	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Recreation and ceremony	3

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
25 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	2003-07-1098
21 September 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	6.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	330
2 September 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
17 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
17 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
16 September 1993	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
5 August 2014	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	ORANGE PARK MALL (10)
30 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	ROOSEVELT BLVD (16)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Yukon	0.3 miles	24
Venetia Terrace	0.9 miles	24
Venetia	1.2 miles	24
Ortega Hills	1.2 miles	24
Ortega Farms	1.7 miles	21
Wesconnett	1.8 miles	24
Ortega Forest	2.1 miles	21
Ortega Terrace	2.2 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 281543. 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.