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Pecan Park, Florida

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Jacksonville North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32218. The Survey maps it on the Hedges quadrangle.

Pecan Park within Duval 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 Pecan Park, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Pecan Park, surveyed 1918

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

140 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Pecan Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,636 acres in total. 38 started naturally. 24 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
Natural38
Equipment and vehicle use26
Arson/incendiarism24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Debris and open burning7
Recreation and ceremony7
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
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
5 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service2003-07-1084
10 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2000Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2006Natural41 acresFlorida Forest Service95 WEST FIRE 2006-07-0273
5 August 2015Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHALF MOON (16)
26 August 2001Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2001Natural6.0 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 Pecan Park: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Louis L. Huntley - Huntley Farm Pond Ex MineClayUnknown

Every working recorded in Duval County

Storms near this place

2 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pecan Park in 2 storm reports between 2023 and 2025: 2 heavy rain. 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
June 2025Heavy RainPecan Park-A personal weather station Weather 1 - KFLJACKS4662 measured 2.30 inches in the | past hour.
September 2023Heavy RainPecan Park-A public weather station along Pecan Park Road just west of Interstate 95 measured a daily storm total rainfall of 4.49 inches. Other stations in the area measured 2-4 inches of daily storm total 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
Tisonia1.6 miles22
Duval1.9 miles24
Dunn Creek2.4 miles24
Beeghly Heights3.1 miles22
Oceanway3.1 miles22
Joels Landing3.7 miles20
Shady Rest4.5 miles22
San Mateo4.7 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 288650. 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.