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Wonderwood, Florida

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Jacksonville Beaches census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32233. It stands on Puckett Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jacksonville Beach quadrangle.

Wonderwood within Duval County

Then and now

1918 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Wonderwood, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Wonderwood, surveyed 1918

Compare 1918 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 26 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

24 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Wonderwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 91 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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 use10
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
20 September 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTimucuan Ecological & Historic PreservePALM TREE
24 August 1993Natural2.0 acresFort Caroline National MemorialWILEMA
5 July 2012Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceEVERGREEN (16)
31 July 1996Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 July 2020Naturalunder an acreTimucuan Ecological & Historic PreserveGREEN TRAIL
6 June 1993Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 June 1993Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 June 2006Naturalunder an acreNational Forests in FloridaCHICKEN

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
Manhattan Beach0.8 miles26
East Mayport0.8 miles21
Oak Harbor0.9 miles26
East Mayport (historical)0.9 miles21
Mayport1.9 miles21
Greenfield2.1 miles26
Donner2.2 miles26
Atlantic Beach2.5 miles26

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 Q122552926The 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 293482. 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.