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Bahama Beach, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Panama City Beaches census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32407. The Survey maps it on the Panama City Beach quadrangle.

Bahama Beach within Bay County

Then and now

1943 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bahama Beach, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Bahama Beach, surveyed 1943

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

124 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Bahama Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,023 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 18 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Arson/incendiarism18
Recreation and ceremony17
Natural14
Equipment and vehicle use12
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Debris and open burning9
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2014Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceG MILES INTERIOR (03)
8 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2008Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service03/#3 S POWERLINE-0593
5 September 2008Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service03/#1 E.HWY 79-0591
20 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresFlorida Forest Service03/ PALMETTO TRACE-0542
2 September 2014Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCHURCHWELL (03)
17 September 2015Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePOWERLINE RD (03)
17 September 1995Natural60 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bay County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bahama Beach: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Baxter's Asphalt and Concreate, I - Panama City Beach MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Bay County

Storms near this place

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bahama Beach in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 3 funnel cloud, 3 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2014Thunderstorm WindBahama Beach$5,000Roof damage occurred to a restaurant on Front Beach Road. Monetary damage was estimated.
December 2023Flash FloodBahama Beach-Alf Coleman Road was becoming impassible near the beach due to flash flooding.
August 2013Flash FloodBahama Beach-The public reported via social media that Alf Coleman Road was underwater and impassible to small cars.
July 2013Flash FloodBahama Beach-Water was at least 6 inches deep up to the height of a guardrail on Alf Coleman road just south of Highway 98 at the initial time of the report. Flooding across the area worsened considerably through the day as heavy rain continued across the area for several hours.
June 2008Funnel CloudBahama Beach-The public reported a funnel cloud just west of Panama City Beach.
June 2008Funnel CloudBahama Beach-A Bay County Sheriff deputy sighted a funnel cloud in a wooded area near Back Beach Road east of State Highway 79.
June 2008Funnel CloudBahama Beach-There were several public sightings of a funnel cloud along Front Beach Road near Panama City Beach.

Every storm recorded in Bay 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
Florida Beach0.5 miles17
Bid-A-Wee0.5 miles17
Open Sands1.0 miles17
Edgewater Gulf Beach1.4 miles17
Long Beach Resort2.2 miles17
Panama City Beach2.4 miles17
West Panama City Beach2.4 miles17
Gulf Resort Beach3.2 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 278032. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.