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Jay Jay, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Titusville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32796. It lies near Horseshoe Crab Island. The Survey maps it on the Mims quadrangle.

Jay Jay within Brevard County

Then and now

1949 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 30 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Jay Jay, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Jay Jay, surveyed 1949

On record in Jay Jay

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

119 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Jay Jay between 1992 and 2019, burning about 13,295 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 12 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
Natural28
Equipment and vehicle use24
Railroad operations and maintenance21
Arson/incendiarism12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony7
Debris and open burning7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2

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 1996Natural45 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2007Natural10 acresFlorida Forest ServiceDAY OFF (05)
26 September 2016Natural120 acresMerritt Island National Wildlife RefugeTEAL
20 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMerritt Island National Wildlife RefugeWEST GATOR CREEK FIRE
3 August 1993Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 August 1996Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 August 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSOUTH CARPENTER (5)
24 August 2007Natural75 acresFlorida Forest ServicePOWER LINE (05)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brevard 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
La Grange0.9 miles13
East Mims1.0 miles13
Mims1.9 miles13
Wiley2.0 miles13
Titusville2.4 miles14
Whispering Hills Golf Estates3.5 miles14
Holiday Village Travel Park4.2 miles13
Turnbull5.0 miles13

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 Q122590260The 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 295379. 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.