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Polly Town, Florida

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Jacksonville North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32218. It stands on Rushing Branch. The Survey maps it on the Eastport quadrangle.

Polly Town within Duval County

Then and now

1918 to 1994

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 Polly Town, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Polly Town, surveyed 1918

Compare 1918 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 24 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

157 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 157 fires within 5 miles of Polly Town between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,140 acres in total. 31 started naturally. 33 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 use41
Arson/incendiarism33
Natural31
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Debris and open burning8
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes1
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
19 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Service16-BONEY FIRE-2010-07-0487
15 September 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service2003-07-1084
10 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2000Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2001Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2001Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 August 1999Natural30 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 Polly Town: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
U S Gypsum/ Jacksonville, Fla.Gypsum-AnhydritePlant

Every working 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
Eastport1.1 miles24
Quinlan1.5 miles24
San Mateo2.0 miles22
Oceanway2.8 miles22
Dunn Creek3.3 miles24
Dames Point Manor3.3 miles24
Yellow Bluff Fort3.4 miles24
Duval3.5 miles24

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 Q122598735The 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 289158. 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.