Pine Bluff, Florida

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Fruit Cove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32259. It stands on Flora Branch. The Survey maps it on the Orangedale quadrangle.

Pine Bluff within St. Johns County

Then and now

1917 to 1993

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 Pine Bluff, surveyed 1993

Topographic sheet of Pine Bluff, surveyed 1917

Compare 1917 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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.

1917 USGS Orange Park quadrangle1:62500
1918 USGS Orange Park quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1948 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1952 USGS Orangedale quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:100000
1980 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1993 USGS Orangedale quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

156 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Pine Bluff between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,236 acres in total. 36 started naturally. 23 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
Natural	36
Misuse of fire by a minor	31
Equipment and vehicle use	25
Arson/incendiarism	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Railroad operations and maintenance	12
Debris and open burning	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Fireworks	4

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
6 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
29 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	CORKLAN DRIVE (16)
14 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	210
11 September 2010	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	WF-55-IVY HOLLOW
3 August 1993	Natural	1.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
24 August 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
21 August 1993	Natural	25 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
2 August 1999	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Fruit Cove	3.1 miles	20
Switzerland	4.7 miles	20
Blacks Ford	5.5 miles	18
Julia (historical)	5.7 miles	18
San Diego Salamototo (historical)	5.7 miles	20
Sampson	6.1 miles	18
Durbin	7.1 miles	16
Whites Ford	7.5 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 308080. 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.