Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Palm Valley, FL

Palm Valley is an affluent census-designated place on San Pablo Island in St. Johns County, between the Intracoastal Waterway and State Road A1A in the Ponte Vedra area.

Palm Valley had a population of 21,827 at the 2020 census, living in 9,344 households, and it is part of the Jacksonville metropolitan area.

Palm Valley was known in the Spanish colonial era as Diego Plains, after Don Diego Espinoza, who had settled a vast cattle ranch there by 1703 that was later fortified as Fort San Diego.

Palm Valley's recorded history reaches back even further - an Indigenous village stood there before Spanish settlement, and early Franciscan missionaries built a mission called The Nativity of Our Lady of Tolomato in the area.

Palm Valley got its modern name from its dense palm trees, a resource local families once harvested commercially, cutting and shipping some 400,000 palm fronds north each year for Palm Sunday.

Palm Valley was transformed in 1908, when a canal was dug through Diego Plains linking the San Pablo and Tolomato rivers - the waterway that became part of the Intracoastal Waterway and opened the valley to easier access.

Palm Valley's deep woods and abundant water made it prime moonshine country during Prohibition, and illegal whiskey distilling continued there even after Prohibition was repealed in 1933.

Palm Valley contains the Intracoastal-side portion of Sawgrass, including the TPC Sawgrass side that hosts The Players Championship golf tournament every year.

Palm Valley students are zoned to Ponte Vedra High School, and the Ponte Vedra Beach branch of the St. Johns County Public Library sits within the CDP.