Saybrook, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Matanzas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32086. The Survey maps it on the Saint Augustine Beach quadrangle.

Saybrook within St. Johns County

Then and now

1937 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 44 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Saybrook, surveyed 1981

Topographic sheet of Saybrook, surveyed 1937

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1937 USGS Crescent Beach quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS St. Augustine quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS St. Augustine Beach quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1958 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Saint Augustine quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

302 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 302 fires within 5 miles of Saybrook between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,804 acres in total. 148 started naturally. 26 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
Natural	148
Equipment and vehicle use	45
Arson/incendiarism	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Debris and open burning	19
Misuse of fire by a minor	14
Railroad operations and maintenance	12
Recreation and ceremony	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Other causes	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
6 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
5 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
5 September 1993	Natural	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
4 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
28 September 1993	Natural	6.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
26 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	821
26 September 1993	Natural	75 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
15 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	CHERRY TREE RD (55)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Dupont Center	1.8 miles	14
Saint Augustine Shores	2.7 miles	14
Moultrie	3.1 miles	14
Fort Peyton	3.7 miles	14
Butler Beach	3.9 miles	14
Vermont Heights	4.1 miles	12
Crescent Beach	4.3 miles	14
Saint Augustine South	4.7 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 308269. 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.