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Garden City, Florida

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Jacksonville North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32218. It stands on West Branch Blockhouse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Trout River quadrangle.

Garden City 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 Garden City, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Garden City, surveyed 1918

Compare 1918 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

124 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Garden City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 758 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 25 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 use40
Arson/incendiarism25
Natural18
Railroad operations and maintenance14
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 1999Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service2003-07-1084
14 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2001Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2001Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 August 1999Natural30 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 August 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Duval 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 Garden City: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Kaiser Cement & Gypsum/JacksonvilleGypsum-Anhydrite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPlant

Every working recorded in Duval County

Storms near this place

9 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garden City in 9 storm reports between 2001 and 2022: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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 2022Heavy RainGarden City-A personal weather station ACU FLAMINGO KFLJACKS4122 measured 2.5 inches of rainfall between 6:55 pm local time to 8 pm local time.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindGarden City-A tree was blown down along I-295 eastbound between Exit 32 and Exit 33. The time of damage was based on radar.
March 2018HailGarden City-Widespread golf ball size hail fell at the NWS Jacksonville office located at the Jacksonville International Airport.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindGarden City-Power lines were blown down at Lem Turner and Trout River Blvd.
May 2011HailGarden City-Golf ball size hail reports were relayed from the intersection of Dunn Ave. and Lem Turner Blvd.
May 2011HailGarden City-Quarter size hail was reported from the intersection of Dunn Ave. and Interstate 295.
February 2009HailGarden City-A construction worker on Lem Turner Road reported penny size hail.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindGarden City-Trees were blown down near Interstate 295 and Duval Road. Additional trees were blown down near Biscayne. The time of the event was based on radar.
June 2001HailGarden City-no account filed

Every storm 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
Biscayne Village1.1 miles22
Highlands1.5 miles22
Northwood2.0 miles22
Beverly Hills2.1 miles22
Riverview2.5 miles22
Sherwood Forest2.5 miles22
Harbor View3.1 miles22
Ribault Manor3.2 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 282918. 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.