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Franklintown, Florida

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Fernandina Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32034. It stands on Harrison Creek. The Survey maps it on the Amelia City quadrangle.

Franklintown within Nassau County

Then and now

1919 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Franklintown, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Franklintown, surveyed 1919

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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

47 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Franklintown between 1993 and 2017, burning about 217 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 8 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
Natural14
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony2

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 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceBUCCANEER (45)
19 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2003-07-1089
4 August 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceFRANK WARD RD (45)
4 August 2006Natural25 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBIG TALBOT FIRE 2006-07-0268
18 August 2011Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceFLATWOODS TRAIL (45)
18 August 2000Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2015Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceINDEPENDENCE (45)
4 July 2015Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceINDEPENDENCE 2 (45)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nassau 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 Franklintown: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Amelia Island PlacerTitanium-Heavy MineralsOccurrenceMonazite, Zircon, Rutile, Ilmenite

Every working recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Franklintown in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2022: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
July 2022Thunderstorm WindFranklintown$2,000Shingles were blown off a house and 1 inch tree branches were down.
June 2009HailFranklintown-A spotter reported penny size hail along A1A as he was driving into Amelia Island.

Every storm recorded in Nassau 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
American Beach1.3 miles21
Amelia City2.4 miles21
Nassauville3.8 miles22
O'Neil5.4 miles22
Fernandina Beach7.9 miles22
Glenwood8.3 miles23
Hedges8.4 miles22
Yulee Heights8.6 miles22

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.

Wikipedia article on FranklintownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5492155The 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 295305. 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.