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Hilden, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the St. Augustine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32081. The Survey maps it on the Durbin quadrangle.

Hilden within St. Johns County

Then and now

1918 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hilden, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Hilden, surveyed 1918

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

255 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 255 fires within 5 miles of Hilden between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,692 acres in total. 117 started naturally. 32 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
Natural117
Equipment and vehicle use45
Arson/incendiarism32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Railroad operations and maintenance14
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Debris and open burning7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2013Arson/incendiarism8.3 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSTRATTONRD1(55)
5 September 1999Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1999Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWHEATFIELD (55)
27 September 2019Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCROSSWATER PARKWAY (55)
25 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceTWELVE MILE SWAMP #3 (55)
11 September 1999Debris and open burning10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Johns 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 Hilden: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
Northeast Florida Phosphate DepositPhosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Fluorine-FluoriteProspect1965

Every working recorded in St. Johns County

Storms near this place

3 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hilden in 3 storm reports between 2022 and 2025: 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 1 injury. 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
August 2022LightningHilden1 hurtA male was struck by lightning and transported to the local hospital with burn injuries.
August 2025Heavy RainHilden-A personal Weather Station MTB Nocatee - KFLPONTE141 reported 2.03 inches of rainfall during the past hour.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindHilden-Trees were blown down along Crosswater Parkway. The time of damage was based on radar.

Every storm recorded in St. Johns 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
Durbin1.9 miles16
Sampson3.3 miles18
Twentymile4.3 miles20
Whites Ford5.3 miles18
Blacks Ford6.5 miles18
South Ponte Vedra Beach6.9 miles18
Elwood7.2 miles13
Julia (historical)7.7 miles18

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.

Wikidata item Q122556249The 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 307985. 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.