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Sawgrass, Florida

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Ponte Vedra census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32082. It lies near Diego Plains. The Survey maps it on the Mickler Landing quadrangle. 5,385 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.

Sawgrass within St. Johns County

Then and now

1918 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sawgrass, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Sawgrass, surveyed 1918

Population over time

3 figures

Sawgrass grew from 4,942 to 5,385 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20004,942
20104,880-62 (-1%)
20205,385+505 (+10%)

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

76 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Sawgrass between 1992 and 2020, burning about 353 acres in total. 45 started naturally. 6 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
Natural45
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Arson/incendiarism6
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 1994Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 1992Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 1992Natural25 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 August 1999Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2001Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 August 1996Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 August 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWF FIND #2
13 August 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWF FIND #1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Johns 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 Sawgrass: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Titanium-Heavy Minerals. 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
Mineral City Placer, Pontra VedraTitanium-Heavy MineralsProducerZircon, Kyanite, Rutile, Ilmenite

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Palm Valley1.4 miles20
Palm Valley Landing2.0 miles20
Mickler Landing2.3 miles18
Ponte Vedra2.4 miles20
Ponte Vedra Beach3.3 miles20
Twentymile5.3 miles20
Durbin8.7 miles16
Hilden9.5 miles16

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.

Wikipedia article on SawgrassAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2598735The 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 1867201. 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.