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Dupont Center, 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 32086. The Survey maps it on the Saint Augustine Beach quadrangle.

Dupont Center 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 Dupont Center, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Dupont Center, surveyed 1937

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

252 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 252 fires within 5 miles of Dupont Center between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,682 acres in total. 133 started naturally. 9 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
Natural133
Equipment and vehicle use42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Debris and open burning16
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Arson/incendiarism9
Recreation and ceremony6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes1

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
5 September 1993Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 September 1993Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 September 1993Natural75 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use5.0 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)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Saybrook1.8 miles14
Crescent Beach3.3 miles14
Saint Augustine Shores3.8 miles14
Butler Beach3.8 miles14
Cedar Landing3.9 miles13
Moultrie4.4 miles14
Fort Matanzas4.9 miles13
Fort Peyton5.3 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.

Wikidata item Q122589904The 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 307938. 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.