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Meadowbrook Terrace, Florida

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Orange Park census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32073. The Survey maps it on the Orange Park quadrangle. It stands 59 feet above sea level.

Meadowbrook Terrace within Clay County

Then and now

1917 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Meadowbrook Terrace, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Meadowbrook Terrace, surveyed 1917

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 24 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

131 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Meadowbrook Terrace between 1992 and 2020, burning about 490 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 22 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
Misuse of fire by a minor29
Equipment and vehicle use27
Arson/incendiarism22
Railroad operations and maintenance16
Natural14
Debris and open burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
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
3 September 2011Arson/incendiarism9.2 acresFlorida Forest ServiceFELDMAN (16)
21 September 2003Misuse of fire by a minor6.0 acresFlorida Forest Service330
17 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceORANGE PARK MALL (10)
30 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceROOSEVELT BLVD (16)
3 August 1999Natural13 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Meadowbrook Terrace: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Highland MineTitanium-Heavy MineralsProducerLeucoxene, Zircon, Kyanite, Rutile

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Meadowbrook Terrace in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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 2023Thunderstorm WindMeadowbrook Terrace-Trees were blown down and a roof was damaged at a Gas Station near Interstate 295 and US Highway 17. The time of damage was based on radar.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindMeadowbrook Terrace-A tree was blown down onto a home. The time of damage was based on radar data.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindMeadowbrook Terrace-Trees were blown down on Highway 17 at Wells Road.
October 2007FloodMeadowbrook Terrace-Flooding was reported on several sections of Fleming Island and Orange Park with the Red Cross reporting several homes flooded out.

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
Bellair0.4 miles24
North Meadowbrook Terrace0.9 miles24
Orange Park1.7 miles24
Camp Echockotee1.8 miles24
Laurel Grove2.3 miles24
Holly Point2.5 miles24
Lakeside3.7 miles24
Ridgewood3.7 miles24

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 Meadowbrook TerraceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q11037539The 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 286664. 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.