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Sherwood Forest, Florida

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Jacksonville West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32208. It stands on Ninemile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Trout River quadrangle.

Sherwood 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 Sherwood Forest, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Sherwood Forest, surveyed 1918

Compare 1918 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

Fires near this place

108 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Sherwood Forest between 1992 and 2019, burning about 594 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 20 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 use32
Arson/incendiarism20
Railroad operations and maintenance16
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony8
Debris and open burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
7 September 1999Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest Service45 ACREE 2007-07-0525
8 August 2000Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2016Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLANE SWAMP (16)
18 August 1993Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 July 2003Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresFlorida Forest Service2003-07-1032
31 July 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Duval 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 Sherwood Forest: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Kaiser Cement & Gypsum/JacksonvilleGypsum-Anhydrite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPlant

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Beverly Hills0.9 miles22
Harbor View0.9 miles22
Dinsmore1.1 miles22
Ribault Manor1.5 miles22
Biscayne Village1.8 miles22
Riverview2.0 miles22
Carver Manor2.2 miles22
Lake Park Estates2.3 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 291016. 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.