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Dinsmore, Florida

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Jacksonville West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32219. It stands on Ninemile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Trout River quadrangle.

Dinsmore 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 Dinsmore, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Dinsmore, surveyed 1918

Compare 1918 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

113 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Dinsmore between 1992 and 2019, burning about 779 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 18 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 use29
Railroad operations and maintenance23
Arson/incendiarism18
Natural11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony8
Debris and open burning7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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
7 September 1999Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest Service45 ACREE 2007-07-0525
8 August 2000Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2016Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLANE SWAMP (16)
22 August 2016Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceIMESON RD (16)
18 August 1993Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 August 2003Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresFlorida Forest Service2003-07-1056

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Duval County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Dinsmore: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, 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
Kaiser Cement & Gypsum/JacksonvilleGypsum-Anhydrite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPlant

Every working recorded in Duval County

Storms near this place

9 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dinsmore in 9 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 lightning. The reports record 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
August 2012LightningDinsmore2 hurtTwo men working in a bucket truck were struck by lightning at the 8800 block of Moncrief Dinsmore Road around 1 pm. One man was in the truck at the time. Both men were taken to the hospital.
June 2010LightningDinsmore$100,000Lightning stuck three homes in the same neighborhood. The strikes on each home were within minutes of each other. One home on Rolling River Blvd suffered major damage. The other two homes on Crooked River Road and Deep Springs Drive had minor damage. The cost of total damage was estimated.
April 2019LightningDinsmore$2,000Lightning hit a building along New Kings Road and caused a structure fire. A transformer blew. The time of the damage was unknown but estimated based on squall line passage. Cost of damage was unknown but estimated for the event to be included in Storm Data.
October 2014LightningDinsmore$2,000Lightning caused a structure fire on East Crystal River Road. The cost of damage was unknown and estimated for inclusion of the event in storm data.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindDinsmore$1,000Trees were blown down onto power lines that caused power outages near Dunn Avenue, just south of the Trout River, west of Highway 23/US Route 1. The cost of damage was unknown, but it was estimated for Storm Data.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindDinsmore-A snapped pine tree fell on a home damaging the stucco along Sycamore St in Dinsmore.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindDinsmore-A home had roof damage along Dunn Avenue.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindDinsmore-Central dispatch reported a tree was blown down on power lines along Pitts Road.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindDinsmore-Trees and power lines were blown down near New Kings Road and Edgewood, both on the northwest side of Jacksonville.

Every storm 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
Sherwood Forest1.1 miles22
Harbor View1.6 miles22
Spaulding1.7 miles18
Beverly Hills2.0 miles22
Carver Manor2.1 miles22
Ribault Manor2.3 miles22
Biscayne Village2.5 miles22
Pickettville2.8 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 281579. 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.

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.