San Nicolas Palica, Florida

23 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 32216. It stands on Bennett Branch. The Survey maps it on the Arlington quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

San Nicolas Palica 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 Nicolas Palica (historical), surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of San Nicolas Palica (historical), surveyed 1918

Compare 1918 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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.

1918 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1948 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Arlington quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Arlington quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
1977 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:100000
1980 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1994 USGS Arlington quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

42 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of San Nicolas Palica (historical) between 1992 and 2017, burning about 165 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 8 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 use	17
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Arson/incendiarism	8
Natural	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	1

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
2 September 2011	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	SAN DIEGO 2 (16)
29 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	SAN DIEGO(16)
2 August 1993	Railroad operations and maintenance	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
9 July 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
12 July 1998	Natural	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
6 June 2015	Misuse of fire by a minor	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	ANDERS RD (16)
4 June 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	2.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
21 June 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Duval County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of San Nicolas Palica (historical): 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Titanium-Heavy Minerals, Titanium, Zirconium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Humphries Gold Corp Mine	Titanium, Zirconium	Past Producer
	Jacksonville Placer	Titanium-Heavy Minerals	Producer	Rutile, Zircon, Ilmenite

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Bowden	0.1 miles	23
Lakewood	1.1 miles	21
Larsen	1.2 miles	21
San Jose Forest	1.2 miles	21
Englewood	1.5 miles	21
San Jose	1.7 miles	22
South Metro	1.7 miles	21
Pineland Gardens	2.0 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 294523. 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.