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Joels Landing, Florida

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Jacksonville North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32218. It stands on Seaton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Italia quadrangle.

Joels Landing within Duval 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 Joels Landing, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Joels Landing, surveyed 1918

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

107 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Joels Landing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,302 acres in total. 43 started naturally. 7 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
Natural43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use14
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism7
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1

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
4 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2000Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2000Natural520 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2006Natural41 acresFlorida Forest Service95 WEST FIRE 2006-07-0273
5 August 2015Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHALF MOON (16)
4 August 1993Natural25 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 August 2006Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTWO POND 2006-07-0287

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 Joels Landing: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Louis L. Huntley - Huntley Farm Pond Ex MineClayUnknown

Every working 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
Tisonia2.8 miles22
Pecan Park3.7 miles22
Beeghly Heights4.2 miles22
Duval5.2 miles24
Dunn Creek6.1 miles24
Oceanway6.2 miles22
San Mateo7.7 miles22
Shady Rest7.7 miles22

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 Q122596540The 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 294818. 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.