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.
Then and now
1941 to 1993The 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.


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
Gold Head Branch State Parklisted 2020
Population over time
2 figuresKeystone 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,350 | |
| 2020 | 1,446 | +96 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1941 USGS Starke quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Starke quadrangle1:50000
- 1949 USGS Keystone Heights quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1949 USGS Starke quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Keystone Heights quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
242 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 74 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 55 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 27 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 25 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 21 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 15 |
| Natural | 13 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1997 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 15 September 1995 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 6 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 acres | Florida Forest Service | BASS BOAT FIRE 2006-07-0272 |
| 31 August 1994 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 23 August 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 21 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 707 (54) |
| 21 August 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | BOWDOIN FIRE 2006-07-0286 |
| 10 August 2012 | Natural | 18 acres | Florida Forest Service | 21 SOUTH (04) |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clay Co Board of Co Comm. - Twin Lakes Mine | Clay | Unknown | ||
| Florida Rock Industries - Goldhead Mine | Titanium-Heavy Minerals | Producer | Ilmenite, Leucoxene, Rutile, Zircon, Kyanite | |
| Foremost Clay Mine | Kaolin | Past Producer | ||
| Gold Head Mine | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keystone Heights | - | Large trees toppled. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Park of the Palms | 0.6 miles | 16 | |
| Loch Lommond | 1.4 miles | 16 | |
| Lake Geneva | 1.5 miles | 16 | |
| Belmore | 9.9 miles | 13 | |
| Kingsley Village | 12.8 miles | 17 | |
| Kingsley Beach | 13.5 miles | 13 | |
| Kingsley | 13.6 miles | 13 | |
| Penney Farms | 17.8 miles | 14 |
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 Heights | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q602301 | The 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.








