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Jacksonville Heights, Florida

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Jacksonville West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32210. The Survey maps it on the Marietta quadrangle.

Jacksonville Heights within Duval County

Then and now

1917 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Jacksonville Heights, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Jacksonville Heights, surveyed 1917

Compare 1917 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

282 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 282 fires within 5 miles of Jacksonville Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,132 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 47 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 use85
Misuse of fire by a minor53
Arson/incendiarism47
Railroad operations and maintenance25
Natural23
Debris and open burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Recreation and ceremony14
Smoking1
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 1999Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2011Arson/incendiarism9.2 acresFlorida Forest ServiceFELDMAN (16)
25 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2003-07-1098
21 September 2003Misuse of fire by a minor6.0 acresFlorida Forest Service330
2 September 1994Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Oak Hill Park0.7 miles24
North Oak Hill0.7 miles21
Enchanted Park0.9 miles24
Westwood1.6 miles24
Sweetwater1.7 miles21
Oak Hill1.9 miles24
Normandy Village1.9 miles21
Cedar Hills2.2 miles21

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 Q122594337The 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 284699. 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.