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Mayport, Florida

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Jacksonville Beaches census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32233. It lies near Batten Island. The Survey maps it on the Mayport quadrangle.

Mayport 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 Mayport, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Mayport, surveyed 1918

Compare 1918 against another survey:

On record in Mayport

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

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

24 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Mayport between 1992 and 2020, burning about 83 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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 use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
20 September 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTimucuan Ecological & Historic PreservePALM TREE
28 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTimucuan Ecological & Historic PreservePUMPKIN#1
24 August 1993Natural2.0 acresFort Caroline National MemorialWILEMA
31 July 1996Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 July 2020Naturalunder an acreTimucuan Ecological & Historic PreserveGREEN TRAIL
17 July 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTimucuan Ecological & Historic PreserveCEDAR
6 June 1993Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 June 2006Naturalunder an acreNational Forests in FloridaCHICKEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Duval County

Storms near this place

12 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mayport in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2013: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 heavy rain, 1 waterspout. 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
September 1998Thunderstorm WindMayport$2,000Large trees were blown down.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindMayport$2,000Large trees and power lines were blown down.
March 1997Thunderstorm WindMayport$20no account filed
June 2013Heavy RainMayport-Street flooding was reported in the Villages of Mayport.
May 2006HailMayport-no account filed
June 2006Tornado (F0)Mayport-no account filed
September 2006Tornado (F0)Mayport-no account filed
September 2006Heavy RainMayport-no account filed
May 2005Rip CurrentMayport-no account filed
September 2004Funnel CloudMayport-no account filed
September 2000WaterspoutMayport-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindMayport-no account filed

Every storm 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
Fort George Island0.7 miles21
East Mayport (historical)1.5 miles21
East Mayport1.6 miles21
Wonderwood1.9 miles26
Oak Harbor2.3 miles26
Manhattan Beach2.5 miles26
Greenfield3.0 miles26
Fulton3.4 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 294073. 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.

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.