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Nassau Village, Florida

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Callahan-Hilliard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32011. The Survey maps it on the Callahan quadrangle.

Nassau Village within Nassau County

Then and now

1917 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Nassau Village, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Nassau Village, surveyed 1917

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

128 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Nassau Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,306 acres in total. 14 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
Debris and open burning38
Equipment and vehicle use19
Arson/incendiarism16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Natural14
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1

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
26 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceYOUNIS RD (16)
10 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest Service45 LEM TURNER 2007-07-0526
6 August 2011Natural18 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTHOMAS CREEK PRESERVE (16)
27 August 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSHEFFIELD RD (45)
22 August 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 August 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePILE BURN (45)
21 August 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 August 2000Natural25 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nassau 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 Nassau Village: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Georgia-Carolina Brick Co PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Nassau 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
Ratliff2.1 miles18
Callahan4.1 miles18
Keene5.0 miles18
Crawford6.0 miles17
Italia6.8 miles20
Dahoma8.3 miles17
Dyal8.4 miles18
Hero8.7 miles20

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 Q122541778The 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 2407591. 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.