Fort Matanzas, Florida

The same ground, surveyed 54 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1927 1981

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.

• Fort Matanzas National Monumentlisted 1966 · 0.4 miles away
• Fort Matanzas NM Headquarters and Visitor Centerlisted 2008 · 0.4 miles away

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.

• 1927 USGS Matanzas quadrangle1:48000
• 1943 USGS Matanzas quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Matanzas quadrangle1:62500
• 1954 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Matanzas Inlet quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1964 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
• 1981 USGS Saint Augustine quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Fort Matanzas between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,053 acres in total. 76 started naturally. 1 was 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:

• Cedar Landing
• Summer Haven
• Crescent Beach
• Butler Beach
• Dupont Center
• Saybrook

Every fire recorded in St. Johns 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 307962. 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.