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Jacksonville Guides

We're building this neighborhood by neighborhood, city by city: a real guide to what each part of the Jacksonville metro is actually like, not just a filtered map — from Downtown Jacksonville and historic St. Augustine to the Ponte Vedra Beach and Nocatee golf-and-beach corridor and the Clay, Nassau, and Baker county suburbs beyond. Start with one of the guides below — more are on the way.

Jacksonville core

Cities across the metro

St. Johns

St. Augustine

Founded in 1565 by Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, St. Augustine has been a Spanish garrison town, a Flagler-era resort, and a civil-rights flashpoint — today it pairs a living-history downtown with one of Florida's top-rated school districts.

St. Johns

Ponte Vedra Beach

Once a titanium-mining outpost called Mineral City, Ponte Vedra Beach reinvented itself as a luxury golf-and-beach community in the 1920s and now anchors one of Florida's most affluent, highest-rated school corridors.

St. Johns

Nocatee

Broken ground in 2005 on a 13,000-plus-acre tract, Nocatee has grown roughly 400% in a decade into one of the top-selling planned communities in the country — a newly built alternative to Jacksonville's older, historic neighborhoods.

Clay

Orange Park

Founded in 1877 on the site of a 19th-century plantation, Orange Park pairs a walkable, tree-canopied downtown on the St. Johns River with easy highway access into Jacksonville.

Clay

Fleming Island

Named for Irish settler George Fleming's 1790 “Hibernia” plantation, Fleming Island has grown into one of the Jacksonville metro's fastest-growing and wealthiest unincorporated communities, wrapped almost entirely by water.

Nassau

Fernandina Beach / Amelia Island

Platted by Spain in 1811 as the last Spanish city established in the Western Hemisphere, Fernandina Beach on Amelia Island blends a preserved 19th-century downtown with Atlantic-coast living about 25 miles northeast of Jacksonville.

Baker

Macclenny

Originally settled as “Darbyville” and renamed for a 19th-century lumberman, Macclenny is Baker County's seat and largest city — a compact, inland town along the I-10 corridor west of Jacksonville.

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Jacksonville Beach

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Atlantic Beach

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Neptune Beach

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Middleburg

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Green Cove Springs

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Yulee

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World Golf Village

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Callahan

Guide in progress.