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Stockade, Florida

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Jacksonville East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32256. It stands on Mill Dam Branch. The Survey maps it on the Bayard quadrangle.

Stockade within Duval County

Then and now

1917 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Stockade, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Stockade, surveyed 1917

Compare 1917 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

160 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 160 fires within 5 miles of Stockade between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,648 acres in total. 89 started naturally. 15 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
Natural89
Equipment and vehicle use26
Arson/incendiarism15
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
6 September 1999Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2010Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Service16-BARN HILL FIRE-2010-07-0492
13 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service16 LIGHTING II FIRE 07-0532
8 August 1992Natural25 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2011Natural211 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHODGES ONE (16)
7 August 2011Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHODGES THREE (16)
7 August 2011Natural32 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHODGES TWO (16)
5 August 2016Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceNEW WELL (16)

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Tolomato (historical)2.2 miles20
Deerwood Club2.4 miles22
Greenland4.0 miles22
Sunbeam4.0 miles22
Sans Pareil4.3 miles26
Oak Landing4.4 miles26
Center Park4.8 miles23
Beechwood4.9 miles23

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.

Wikidata item Q122589997The 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 295649. 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.