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Kingsley Village, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Keystone Heights census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32091. The Survey maps it on the Starke quadrangle.

Kingsley Village within Clay County

Then and now

1941 to 1999

The same ground, surveyed 58 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kingsley Village, surveyed 1999
Topographic sheet of Kingsley Village, surveyed 1941

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

206 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 206 fires within 5 miles of Kingsley Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,912 acres in total. 46 started naturally. 16 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
Natural46
Equipment and vehicle use45
Railroad operations and maintenance32
Debris and open burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Arson/incendiarism16
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Recreation and ceremony3

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
5 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service03-04-NOV/SUPP- SR 16 EAST FIRE -1285
1 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2006Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Service03-04-MORTOR FIRE-1233
31 August 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 August 2006Natural6.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHUTCHINSON RANGE 2006-07-0285
20 August 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

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 Kingsley Village: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Staurolite, Titanium, Zirconium, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Kyanite, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Aluminum, Zirconium, Titanium. 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
Highland DepositTitanium, Metal, Zirconium, KyaniteProducer1946, 1949, 1986
Highland DepositIron, Magnesite, Uranium, AluminumPast Producer1946, 1949, 1989
Trail RidgeZirconium, TitaniumProducer1946, 1949
Trail Ridge OperationStaurolite, Titanium, ZirconiumProducer1946, 1949

Every working 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
Kingsley Beach1.2 miles13
Kingsley1.3 miles13
Belmore8.6 miles13
Clay Hill9.5 miles21
Highland9.8 miles15
Middleburg10.6 miles21
Penney Farms10.9 miles14
Asbury Lake11.6 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 Q122555730The 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 285132. 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.