Newcastle, Florida

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Jacksonville East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32277. It stands on Newcastle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Arlington quadrangle.

Newcastle 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 Newcastle, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Newcastle, surveyed 1918

Compare 1918 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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.

1918 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1948 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Arlington quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Arlington quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
1977 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:100000
1980 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1994 USGS Arlington quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Newcastle between 1992 and 2017, burning about 213 acres in total. 9 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 use	22
Natural	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Other causes	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
24 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
3 August 1994	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
17 August 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
1 August 2016	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	ZOO (16)
29 July 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	2.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
20 July 1998	Natural	8.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
18 July 1993	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
11 July 2016	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	CAMBET (16)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Duval County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Newcastle: 1 past producer, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Thorium, Titanium, Zirconium, Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	A C Skinner Deposit	Thorium, Titanium, Zirconium	Past Producer
	U S Gypsum/ Jacksonville, Fla.	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Plant

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Gilmore	1.6 miles	23
Chaseville	1.8 miles	24
Dames Point	1.9 miles	24
Dames Point Manor	2.0 miles	24
Eggleston Heights	2.3 miles	23
Floral Bluff	2.3 miles	23
Yellow Bluff Fort	2.5 miles	24
New Berlin	2.5 miles	24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 294223. 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.