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Eggleston Heights, Florida

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Jacksonville East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32211. It stands on Deer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Arlington quadrangle.

Eggleston Heights 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 Eggleston Heights, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Eggleston Heights, surveyed 1918

Compare 1918 against another survey:

On record in Eggleston Heights

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 2 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Eggleston Heights between 1992 and 2017, burning about 186 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 7 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 use19
Arson/incendiarism7
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural4
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
2 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSAN DIEGO 2 (16)
3 August 1994Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSAN DIEGO(16)
17 August 1995Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 July 1992Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 July 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 July 2016Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceNEW BERLIN (16)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Duval County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Eggleston Heights: 2 plants, 2 past producers, 1 producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Perlite, Titanium-Heavy Minerals, Thorium, Titanium, Zirconium, Titanium, Zirconium. 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
Chemrock/ Jacksonville, Fla.PerlitePlant
Humphries Gold Corp MineTitanium, ZirconiumPast Producer
Jacksonville PlacerTitanium-Heavy MineralsProducerRutile, Zircon, Ilmenite
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
Arlington0.4 miles23
Floral Bluff0.5 miles23
Oakwood Villa1.9 miles23
Talleyrand2.2 miles21
Newcastle2.3 miles23
Holiday Hill2.7 miles23
Gilmore2.8 miles23
Springfield3.0 miles21

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 Q122539310The 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 282120. 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.