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Green Cove Springs, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Green Cove Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32043. It stands on Governors Creek. The Survey maps it on the Green Cove Springs quadrangle. 9,786 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Green Cove Springs within Clay County

Then and now

1947 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 44 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Green Cove Springs, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Green Cove Springs, surveyed 1947

On record in Green Cove Springs

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 4 records

Population over time

4 figures

Green Cove Springs grew from 320 to 9,786 between 1880 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.

YearPeople Change
1880320
20005,378
20106,908+1,530 (+28%)
20209,786+2,878 (+42%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

110 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Green Cove Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,201 acres in total. 33 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
Natural33
Railroad operations and maintenance26
Debris and open burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
9 September 1996Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2010Natural4.1 acresFlorida Forest Service10-GUSTAFSON'S FIRE-2010-07-0474
5 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 September 1999Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 August 1994Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 August 1993Natural4.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceFLORIDA STREET (10)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Green Cove Springs: 1 plant, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: REE, Thorium, Titanium, Clay. 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
Clay County Steam Brick Co PitClayPast Producer
Green Cove Springs ConcentratorREE, Thorium, TitaniumPlant

Every working recorded in Clay 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
Magnolia Springs1.7 miles20
Fellowship Park3.1 miles20
Walkill3.8 miles14
Pass Station5.1 miles14
Hibernia5.2 miles20
Russell5.8 miles20
Solite (historical)6.6 miles21
Penney Farms7.1 miles14

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 Green Cove SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q988944The 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 283381. 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.