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Pablo Keys, Florida

26 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 32250. It lies near Beswick Island. The Survey maps it on the Jacksonville Beach quadrangle.

Pablo Keys 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 Pablo Keys, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Pablo Keys, surveyed 1918

Compare 1918 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 26 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

122 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Pablo Keys between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,140 acres in total. 51 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
Natural51
Equipment and vehicle use29
Arson/incendiarism16
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning2
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
16 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 1992Natural25 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2011Natural211 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHODGES ONE (16)
7 August 2011Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHODGES THREE (16)
7 August 2011Natural32 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHODGES TWO (16)
3 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePARKWAY II (16)
3 August 1998Natural150 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2001Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Duval 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 Pablo Keys: 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
Mineral City Placer, Pontra VedraTitanium-Heavy MineralsProducerZircon, Kyanite, Rutile, Ilmenite

Every working recorded in Duval County

Storms near this place

3 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pablo Keys in 3 storm reports between 2020 and 2025: 1 lightning, 1 heavy rain, 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
August 2020LightningPablo Keys$10,000A home was struck by lightning and caught on fire. There was partial roof collapse. The cost of damage was estimated.
August 2025FloodPablo Keys-Street and lawn flooding was observed near the Baptist hospital in Jacksonville Beach. Cars were still able to drive through streets without stalling.
July 2022Heavy RainPablo Keys-A personal weather observation site Riptide - KFLJACKS4066 measured 4.03 inches of rain. The heavy rain began around 3 PM EDT and was ongoing at 4 PM EDT. Surrounding weather observation sites measured 2.5 to 3.5 inches of rainfall.

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
Isle of Palms South0.6 miles26
Isle of Palms0.9 miles26
Oak Landing1.4 miles26
San Pablo1.8 miles26
Jacksonville Beach2.2 miles26
Holiday Harbor2.5 miles26
Neptune Beach3.1 miles26
Tolomato (historical)3.5 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 Q122539985The 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 295520. 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.