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Barrineau Park, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Cantonment census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32577. It stands on Alligator Creek. The Survey maps it on the Barrineau Park quadrangle.

Barrineau Park within Escambia County

Then and now

1921 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Barrineau Park, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Barrineau Park, surveyed 1921

Compare 1921 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

161 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of Barrineau Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,218 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 23 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
Debris and open burning44
Railroad operations and maintenance35
Arson/incendiarism23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use15
Natural10
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
3 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 1994Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150916-002
16 September 2003Arson/incendiarism13 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2005Railroad operations and maintenance4.3 acresFlorida Forest Service912
15 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 August 1994Debris and open burning35 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Escambia 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 Barrineau Park: 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
Dot Pensacola - Blacksmith MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Escambia County

Storms near this place

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barrineau Park in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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
April 2018Tornado (EF0)Barrineau Park$50,000There was a brief EF-0 track on Crabtree Church Road. One home suffered single damage and a broken window and a mobile home was shifted on its foundation. There were also several uprooted small trees and numerous large branches broken.
June 2006LightningBarrineau Park$50,000Lightning either hit a tree or somehow ignited dried out grass and started a fire. The fire heavily damaged two railroad bridges near Barrineau Park.
September 2011LightningBarrineau Park$5,000A shed and mobile home were damaged from a fire that resulted from a lightning strike.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindBarrineau Park$5,000High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees near Barrineau Park.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindBarrineau Park$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down trees that damaged a shed.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindBarrineau Park-no account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindBarrineau Park-no account filed
May 2007HailBarrineau Park-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Escambia 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
Tenile3.0 miles17
Molino Crossroads5.4 miles16
Bay Springs6.0 miles15
Muscogee6.4 miles16
Brickton6.7 miles16
Molino6.8 miles16
Quintette6.8 miles16
McKinnon6.9 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 294207. 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.