The Northside: A look at Jacksonville’s largest area

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Million-dollar homes. Farmlands. Fast-growing suburbs.

All of these picture Jacksonville’s Northside of town.

We decided to circuit the city’s largest area, aft spectator Rob Kight emailed News4Jax, asking successful part, “Why is each communicative that occurs northbound of 8th Street considered the Northside?”

He went connected to write, “This is simply a predominant occurrence and is incredibly frustrating to those of america northbound of the St. Johns (River) and astir Oceanway, to beryllium casually grouped successful with areas that should not beryllium labeled Northside. Do better.”

Kight says helium was calved and raised connected the Northside erstwhile it was predominantly covered successful woods. Those woods person present fixed mode to homes with marsh views, sporadic farms and subdivisions rapidly popping up each implicit the area. Kight says each this is overlooked, acknowledgment successful portion to people’s assumptions astir the Northside, which helium says person truly affected his household — peculiarly his precocious school-aged daughter.

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“It is disappointing when, you know, the students and adjacent the parents of students for a sleepover, oregon something,” Kight said, shaking his head, “expressed interest that ‘Oh, it’s connected the Northside? You unrecorded connected the Northside?’”

Kight says helium readily admits the Northside is not each perfect, conscionable similar different sections of town.

“But the areas that we bash instrumentality pridefulness in, we would emotion to stock with others,” Kight said.

Kight took maine done the San Mateo country wherever helium lives, conscionable extracurricular Oceanway. It’s close successful the mediate of Jacksonville’s largest “zone”.

Jacksonville constabulary patrol the full metropolis by zone, and Zone 6 covers each the country northbound of the Trout River, from conscionable westbound of U.S. 1, which is New Kings Road, each the mode eastbound past Hecksher Drive. One country of Zone 6 with the astir calls for constabulary work is simply a precise tiny subsector labeled P-1. It’s northbound of the Trout River, southbound of I-295, successful betwixt Lem Turner Road and I-95.

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In that tiny subsector, during the period of October, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office online Crime Mapping Tool shows astir of the calls for work dealt with thefts and conveyance break-ins. Among the convulsive crimes, astir were carnal assaults.

Another blistery spot for constabulary calls is simply a tiny pouch disconnected I-95, conscionable eastbound of the Jacksonville International Airport, adjacent the River City Marketplace, wherever the ascendant transgression is theft.

Travel conscionable southbound of the Trout River, and lines go blurred, arsenic radical mistake the Northside for parts of Northwest Jacksonville, which is Zone 5.

On the Sheriff’s Office Zone and SubSector Map, you tin benignant successful your code to spot successful which portion you live.

Back successful Northside territory, you’ll find different acquainted sites similar the Jacksonville Zoo, disconnected I-95 to the east, and the Jacksonville International Airport, disconnected I-95 to the west.

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Way up north, successful the Dunn Creek assemblage betwixt First Coast High School and the Catty Shack Ranch Wildlife Sanctuary, is wherever U.S. Navy seasoned and section realtor Alvin Lyons chose to rise his family.

“With Jacksonville being a ample subject town, and the Northside being centrally located to 3 different bases here,” Lyons explained, “that’s benignant of however I got here.”

Lyons besides says surviving adjacent to the expressway, arsenic good arsenic the airport, is cleanable for anyone who’s ever traveling oregon whitethorn person to get up and spell astatine a moment’s notice, similar members of our military.

Lyons showed maine antithetic areas of the Northside that are becoming favourite spots for families to live. You tin work much astir those increasing areas by becoming a News4Jax Insider.

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