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Palm Valley Landing, Florida

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Ponte Vedra census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32082. It lies near Diego Plains. The Survey maps it on the Palm Valley quadrangle.

Palm Valley Landing within St. Johns County

Then and now

1918 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Palm Valley Landing, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Palm Valley Landing, surveyed 1918

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

109 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Palm Valley Landing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 781 acres in total. 75 started naturally. 6 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
Natural75
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism6
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony1

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
24 September 2010Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Service16-BARN HILL FIRE-2010-07-0492
2 September 1994Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service16 LIGHTING II FIRE 07-0532
8 August 1992Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 1992Natural25 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 August 1999Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 August 2007Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF PALM VALLEY BRIDGE WEST
26 August 2001Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Johns 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 Palm Valley Landing: 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 St. Johns 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
Palm Valley0.7 miles20
Sawgrass2.0 miles18
Mickler Landing2.6 miles18
Twentymile3.6 miles20
Ponte Vedra3.7 miles20
Ponte Vedra Beach4.5 miles20
Durbin6.9 miles16
Hilden7.9 miles16

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 Q122589785The 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 308068. 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.