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Spaulding, Florida

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Jacksonville West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32219. The Survey maps it on the Dinsmore quadrangle.

Spaulding within Duval County

Then and now

1917 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Spaulding, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Spaulding, surveyed 1917

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

128 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Spaulding between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,294 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 18 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 use31
Railroad operations and maintenance23
Arson/incendiarism18
Natural16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Debris and open burning12
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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
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)
7 August 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCISCO FIRE 2006-07-0275
6 August 2011Natural18 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTHOMAS CREEK PRESERVE (16)
22 August 2016Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceIMESON RD (16)
17 August 2003Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresFlorida Forest Service2003-07-1056

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Duval County

Storms near this place

4 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spaulding in 4 storm reports between 2021 and 2024: 1 hail, 1 lightning, 1 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2021LightningSpaulding$15,000Lighting struck a home in Dinsmore and caused a fire with significant damage and losses. The cost of damage was unknown, but it was estimated for Storm Data. It is likely a gross underestimate.
February 2024Funnel CloudSpaulding-Multiple videos and pictures of a funnel cloud near Pritchard Road were relayed. Time was estimated by radar.
September 2022Heavy RainSpaulding-Storm total rainfall of 3.54 inches was measured near Jones Road.
February 2021HailSpaulding-Hail fell for about 1.5 minutes and covered about 50-75% of the ground.

Every storm 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
Dinsmore1.7 miles22
Sherwood Forest2.7 miles22
Plummer2.8 miles18
Harbor View3.3 miles22
Biscayne Village3.4 miles22
Carver Manor3.4 miles22
Cary3.5 miles18
Beverly Hills3.5 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295639. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.