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Whitehouse, 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 32220. The Survey maps it on the Marietta quadrangle.

Whitehouse 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 Whitehouse, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Whitehouse, 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.

Fires near this place

246 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 246 fires within 5 miles of Whitehouse between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,619 acres in total. 43 started naturally. 31 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 use75
Natural43
Arson/incendiarism31
Misuse of fire by a minor30
Railroad operations and maintenance24
Debris and open burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 1999Natural11 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 August 1999Railroad operations and maintenance3.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 August 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 August 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 August 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceGRASS RUNWAY (16)
22 August 2016Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceIMESON RD (16)
17 August 2004Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSTAR LEAF #1 2004-07-0260

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 Whitehouse: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium. 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
Unnamed Titanium DepositTitaniumProspect

Every working recorded in Duval County

Storms near this place

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whitehouse in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 5 hail, 2 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
April 2013LightningWhitehouse$2,000A house fire was started by lightning near Manorville Drive and Montsville Ct. The cost of damage was unknown and estimated for inclusion in Storm Data.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindWhitehouse$1,500Large trees and power lines were blown down.
August 2020FloodWhitehouse-Street flooding was observed between West Beaver Street and Chaffee Road to I-295.
August 2020HailWhitehouse-Quarter size hail was observed west of Normandy.
August 2020HailWhitehouse-Golf ball size hail was observed in the Paradise Village Subdivision, just north of Beaver Street.
April 2015HailWhitehouse-Penny size hail was reported near Whitehouse.
May 2009Funnel CloudWhitehouse-A funnel cloud was reported near Commonwealth Avenue on the Jacksonville Westside.
August 2005LightningWhitehouse-no account filed
May 2002HailWhitehouse-no account filed
April 1996HailWhitehouse-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
Brightsville0.5 miles21
Halsema1.0 miles21
Otis2.6 miles19
Mandeville2.7 miles19
Caleb2.8 miles21
Cambon2.9 miles21
Marietta3.3 miles21
Normandy Village4.3 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 293239. 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.