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Tisonia, 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 32218. It stands on Inconstantion Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hedges quadrangle.

Tisonia 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 Tisonia, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Tisonia, 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.

Fires near this place

147 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Tisonia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,458 acres in total. 45 started naturally. 21 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
Natural45
Arson/incendiarism21
Debris and open burning19
Equipment and vehicle use17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Recreation and ceremony7
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
5 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2000Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2000Natural520 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2006Natural41 acresFlorida Forest Service95 WEST FIRE 2006-07-0273
5 August 2015Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHALF MOON (16)
4 August 1993Natural25 acresFlorida 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 Tisonia: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Louis L. Huntley - Huntley Farm Pond Ex MineClayUnknown

Every working recorded in Duval County

Storms near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tisonia in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 flood. 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
August 2025FloodTisonia-Localized street flooding was reported in the Bainebridge Estates neighborhood along Douglas Lake Dr, Alison Creek Dr, and Stedman Lake Dr. Floodwaters went up to the undercarriage of vehicles and were impassable for low clearance vehicles.
August 2023Heavy RainTisonia-The public measured 2.82 inches between 3:55 pm and 5:35 pm.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindTisonia-no account filed

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
Pecan Park1.6 miles22
Joels Landing2.8 miles20
Duval3.4 miles24
Dunn Creek3.7 miles24
Beeghly Heights4.1 miles22
Oceanway4.7 miles22
Shady Rest4.9 miles22
San Mateo6.3 miles22

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 Q122561049The 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 295674. 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.

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.