BlockOak Hill Park, Florida
24 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 32244. The Survey maps it on the Jacksonville Heights quadrangle.
Then and now
1918 to 1994The 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.
Compare 1918 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 24 printed sheetsMatched 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 Middleburg quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1941 USGS Middleburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Jacksonville Heights quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Middleburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Jacksonville Heights quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1977 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
- 1993 USGS Jacksonville Heights quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Jacksonville Heights quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
280 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 280 fires within 5 miles of Oak Hill Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,133 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 47 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 | 85 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 57 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 47 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 26 |
| Natural | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 14 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1999 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 3 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 9.2 acres | Florida Forest Service | FELDMAN (16) |
| 25 September 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 2003-07-1098 |
| 21 September 2003 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 6.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 330 |
| 2 September 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 17 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 17 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 17 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.2 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enchanted Park | 0.4 miles | 24 | |
| North Oak Hill | 0.7 miles | 21 | |
| Jacksonville Heights | 0.7 miles | 21 | |
| Westwood | 1.0 miles | 24 | |
| Oak Hill | 1.4 miles | 24 | |
| Sweetwater | 1.9 miles | 21 | |
| Cedar Hills | 2.0 miles | 21 | |
| Normandy Village | 2.4 miles | 21 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 287975. 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.