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Plummer, Florida

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Jacksonville West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32219. The Survey maps it on the Dinsmore quadrangle.

Plummer within Duval County

Then and now

1917 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Plummer, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Plummer, surveyed 1917

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Fires near this place

146 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of Plummer between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,349 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 13 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
Equipment and vehicle use28
Debris and open burning27
Railroad operations and maintenance26
Natural25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism13
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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
14 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest Service45 ACREE 2007-07-0525
7 August 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCISCO FIRE 2006-07-0275
6 August 2011Natural18 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTHOMAS CREEK PRESERVE (16)
25 August 2018Natural5.3 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLOGGING ROAD (45)
2 August 1999Natural300 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 August 2003Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresFlorida Forest Service2003-07-1056
4 July 1998Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Duval County

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plummer in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 hail. 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 2025Heavy RainPlummer-A station measured 2.73 inches of rain in one hour.
August 2021Heavy RainPlummer-Storm total rainfall was up to 2.77 inches. About 2 inches fell between 6-7 pm.
March 2018HailPlummer-Widespread quarter size hail was reported.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindPlummer-Trees were blown down in a neighborhood and a trampoline was blown over a fence.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindPlummer-Wind gusts of 50 to 60 mph were estimated.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindPlummer-About 100 trees at the Davey Tree Expert Company were blown over from thunderstorm winds. The time of the damage was based on radar.

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
Cary1.8 miles18
Spaulding2.8 miles18
Dinsmore4.2 miles22
Biscayne Village4.7 miles22
Sherwood Forest5.0 miles22
Beverly Hills5.7 miles22
Garden City5.8 miles22
Harbor View5.8 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 294892. 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.

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.