Sweetwater, Florida

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Jacksonville West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32210. It stands on Williamson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Marietta quadrangle.

Sweetwater 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 Sweetwater, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Sweetwater, surveyed 1917

Compare 1917 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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.

1917 USGS Cambon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1918 USGS Cambon quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1948 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
1977 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:100000
1980 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1994 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

237 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 237 fires within 5 miles of Sweetwater between 1992 and 2020, burning about 780 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 35 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 use	77
Misuse of fire by a minor	51
Arson/incendiarism	35
Railroad operations and maintenance	21
Debris and open burning	15
Natural	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Recreation and ceremony	11
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 1999	Natural	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
3 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	9.2 acres	Florida Forest Service	FELDMAN (16)
25 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	2003-07-1098
21 September 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	6.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	330
2 September 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
17 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
17 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
17 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	1.2 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
Cedar Hills	1.0 miles	21
Hyde Grove	1.1 miles	21
Hyde Park	1.1 miles	21
Normandy Village	1.1 miles	21
Cedar Hills Estates	1.1 miles	21
North Oak Hill	1.2 miles	21
Jacksonville Heights	1.7 miles	21
Enchanted Park	1.7 miles	24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 291938. 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.