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Lake Shore, Florida

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Jacksonville West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32210. It stands on Williamson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jacksonville quadrangle.

Lake Shore within Duval County

Then and now

1918 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lake Shore, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Lake Shore, surveyed 1918

Compare 1918 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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 Lake Shore between 1992 and 2020, burning about 426 acres in total. 10 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
Equipment and vehicle use37
Misuse of fire by a minor32
Arson/incendiarism16
Natural10
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Recreation and ceremony7
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
7 September 1999Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2003-07-1098
2 September 1994Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceNORMANDY LANE (16)
18 August 1993Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 August 2004Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSTAR LEAF #1 2004-07-0260

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Saint Johns Park0.6 miles21
Biltmore0.7 miles21
Cedar Hills Estates1.1 miles21
Ortega1.2 miles21
Hyde Park1.2 miles21
Ortega Forest1.6 miles21
Cedar Hills1.7 miles21
Ortega Terrace1.8 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 285278. 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.