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San Jose Forest, Florida

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Jacksonville East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32217. It stands on Christopher Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jacksonville quadrangle.

San Jose Forest 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 San Jose Forest, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of San Jose Forest, surveyed 1918

Compare 1918 against another survey:

On record in San Jose Forest

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 12 of 26 shown

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Every listing in Duval County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

43 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of San Jose Forest between 1993 and 2019, burning about 176 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 7 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 use17
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
2 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSAN DIEGO 2 (16)
29 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSAN DIEGO(16)
2 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 August 1999Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 July 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 July 1998Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 June 1993Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 June 2003Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Lakewood0.7 miles21
San Jose0.9 miles22
Bowden1.1 miles23
San Nicolas Palica (historical)1.2 miles23
Larsen1.9 miles21
Englewood2.5 miles21
Miramar Terrace2.5 miles21
South Metro2.5 miles21

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 Q122544899The 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 290480. 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.