Shady Rest, Florida

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Jacksonville North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32226. The Survey maps it on the Hedges quadrangle.

Shady Rest within Duval 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 Shady Rest, surveyed 1988

Topographic sheet of Shady Rest, surveyed 1918

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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 St Marys quadrangle1:62500
1919 USGS St Marys quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1919 USGS St. Marys quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1948 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Hedges quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
1959 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Fernandina Beach quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1988 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000

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 Shady Rest between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,162 acres in total. 43 started naturally. 24 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	43
Equipment and vehicle use	26
Arson/incendiarism	24
Debris and open burning	20
Misuse of fire by a minor	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
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
7 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
5 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
2 September 2014	Natural	3.6 acres	Florida Forest Service	GATE FORTY TWO (16)
19 September 2010	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	16-BONEY FIRE-2010-07-0487
19 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	2003-07-1089
18 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
8 August 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	GREGORY AVE. (45)
5 August 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Dunn Creek	2.9 miles	24
Black Hammock	3.5 miles	21
Pecan Park	4.5 miles	22
Duval	4.5 miles	24
Tisonia	4.9 miles	22
Polly Town	5.2 miles	24
Oceanway	5.5 miles	22
Cedar Point	5.6 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295615. 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.