Riverside, Avondale, Murray Hill and Ortega out to Argyle

Riverside and the Westside is our name for the west bank south of Interstate 10, and it puts two kinds of place together. Riverside, Avondale and Ortega are on the St. Johns, with Murray Hill behind them, all inside the Interstate 295 beltway. Riverside is the National Register's Riverside Historic District as the City maps it, 855 acres and 8,633 residents in 2020, with Five Points, Memorial Park and Willowbranch Park inside. The City's own line, the Riverside-Avondale local historic district, takes in both names and does not say where one ends, so Avondale here is the rest of that district, 5,012 residents with Boone Park inside, and 102 of them, on three blocks at its north-east end, live on streets that read as Riverside. Murray Hill is the Murray Hill Preservation Association's filed area, 9,226 residents with Edgewood Avenue's shops and the Murray Hill Theatre; Ortega is the Ortega Preservation Society's peninsula between the St. Johns and the Ortega River, 5,651 residents, with the National Register's Old Ortega district over 1,265 of them at its northern end. Argyle is something else. It is the area the Argyle Area Civic Council filed with the City, 15,623 acres beyond the beltway on the Clay County line, from Argyle Forest to Chimney Lakes and Oak Hill, and 60,007 residents in 2020: a civic council's very large territory rather than one neighborhood, and the largest guide on this site. 5 guides are listed below.

Every address here is Duval County Public Schools and inside the consolidated city, so the levies on a homesteaded bill are the same as anywhere in Jacksonville, and what differs is the non-ad valorem lines on the parcel's bill, which were not read here. Riverside and Avondale are City local historic districts: every Riverside resident is in the Riverside-Avondale district or, for 276 of them, the small St Johns Quarter district, and every Avondale resident is in Riverside-Avondale, so exterior work goes through the City's historic preservation review. The rules were not read here, so ask the City before planning any. Ortega is not a City local historic district; Old Ortega is a National Register listing the City maps. Newer subdivisions in Argyle may sit in a community development district, which sells bonds for a subdivision's roads and drainage and repays them through an assessment on the tax bill, collected like the tax itself; none was checked for this side, and a resale contract does not have to disclose one, so the seller's last tax bill is the place to look. And the river is what flooded here: on 11 September 2017 Hurricane Irma, a hundred miles west, pushed the St. Johns to 5.57 feet at the Main Street Bridge, more than a foot above the 1964 record, and Riverside had its worst flooding since at least 1846. On the river side of this area, FEMA's flood map for the exact address, the seller's disclosure of past flooding and a quote for a separate flood policy belong in the offer.