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Park of the Palms, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Keystone Heights census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32656. It stands on Alligator Creek. The Survey maps it on the Keystone Heights quadrangle.

Park of the Palms within Clay County

Then and now

1941 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 52 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Park of the Palms, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Park of the Palms, surveyed 1941

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

220 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 220 fires within 5 miles of Park of the Palms between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15,796 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 25 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 burning61
Railroad operations and maintenance50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Arson/incendiarism25
Natural19
Equipment and vehicle use18
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1

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
8 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 September 1995Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBASS BOAT FIRE 2006-07-0272
23 August 1996Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceBOWDOIN FIRE 2006-07-0286
10 August 2012Natural18 acresFlorida Forest Service21 SOUTH (04)
1 August 1993Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 July 2003Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service1042-SANTA FE LAKE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Park of the Palms: 2 producers, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Kaolin, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Clay Co Board of Co Comm. - Twin Lakes MineClayUnknown
Florida Rock Industries - Goldhead MineTitanium-Heavy MineralsProducerIlmenite, Leucoxene, Rutile, Zircon, Kyanite
Foremost Clay MineKaolinPast Producer
Gold Head MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Clay 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
Keystone Heights0.6 miles16
Loch Lommond1.5 miles16
Lake Geneva2.1 miles16
Belmore9.8 miles13
Kingsley Village12.4 miles17
Kingsley Beach13.0 miles13
Kingsley13.2 miles13
Penney Farms17.7 miles14

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 Q122597788The 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 307139. 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.