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Keystone Heights, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Keystone Heights census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32656. The Survey maps it on the Keystone Heights quadrangle. 1,446 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 141 feet above sea level.

Keystone Heights within Clay County

Then and now

1941 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 52 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Keystone Heights, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Keystone Heights, surveyed 1941

On record in Keystone Heights

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Keystone Heights grew from 1,350 to 1,446 between 2010 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
20101,350
20201,446+96 (+7%)

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

242 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 242 fires within 5 miles of Keystone Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 16,019 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 25 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
Debris and open burning74
Railroad operations and maintenance55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Arson/incendiarism25
Equipment and vehicle use21
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Natural13
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Smoking3
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 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 September 1995Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBASS BOAT FIRE 2006-07-0272
31 August 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 August 1996Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 August 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service707 (54)
21 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceBOWDOIN FIRE 2006-07-0286
10 August 2012Natural18 acresFlorida Forest Service21 SOUTH (04)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Keystone Heights: 2 producers, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Kaolin, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium-Heavy Minerals. 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 Co Board of Co Comm. - Twin Lakes MineClayUnknown
Florida Rock Industries - Goldhead MineTitanium-Heavy MineralsProducerIlmenite, Leucoxene, Rutile, Zircon, Kyanite
Foremost Clay MineKaolinPast Producer
Gold Head MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Keystone Heights in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
April 1995Thunderstorm WindKeystone Heights-Large trees toppled.

Every storm 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
Park of the Palms0.6 miles16
Loch Lommond1.4 miles16
Lake Geneva1.5 miles16
Belmore9.9 miles13
Kingsley Village12.8 miles17
Kingsley Beach13.5 miles13
Kingsley13.6 miles13
Penney Farms17.8 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 Keystone HeightsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q602301The 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 285088. 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.