Fernandina Beach, Florida

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1919 1994

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 11 records

• Amelia Island Lighthouselisted 2003
• Bailey Houselisted 1973
• Fairbanks Houselisted 1973
• Fernandina Beach Historic Districtlisted 1973
• Fort Clinchlisted 1972
• Merrick-Simmons Houselisted 1983
• Nassau County Jaillisted 2009
• Original Town of Fernandina Historic Sitelisted 1990
• John Denham Palmer Houselisted 1986
• Tabby Houselisted 1973
• Fernandina Beach Historic District (Boundary Increase)listed 1987

Fernandina Beach grew from 10,549 to 13,052 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

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.

• 1919 USGS Fernandina quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1944 USGS Fernandina quadrangle1:62500
• 1948 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Fernandina Beach quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1959 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
• 1981 USGS Fernandina Beach quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1981 USGS Fernandina Beach quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
• 1988 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Fernandina Beach quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Fernandina Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 192 acres in total. 13 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Amelia City
• Chester
• Glenwood
• Nassauville
• O'Neil
• Old Fernandina

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fernandina Beach: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium-Heavy Minerals. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Nassau County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fernandina Beach in 56 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 25 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 8 heavy rain, 3 rip current. The reports record 3 deaths and 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.

Every storm recorded in Nassau County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 294308. 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.