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Bay Harbor, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Panama City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32401. The Survey maps it on the Springfield quadrangle.

Bay Harbor within Bay County

Then and now

1945 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 43 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bay Harbor, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Bay Harbor, surveyed 1945

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

189 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 189 fires within 5 miles of Bay Harbor between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,069 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 25 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
Misuse of fire by a minor54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Arson/incendiarism25
Equipment and vehicle use18
Natural13
Smoking13
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Debris and open burning9
Recreation and ceremony9
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1
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 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service03 / HUNTING LEASE
8 September 2005Fireworks30 acresFlorida Forest Service03 / LOST FIRE
7 September 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceREDFISH POINT (03)
6 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use60 acresFlorida Forest Service03 / CROSSROADS FIRE
25 September 2008Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Service03/AZALEA CIRCLE-0615
23 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Service03-STAR & TRAM RD 2005-02-0572
17 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceORMOND ( 0 3 )

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bay County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Bay Harbor: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Fla. Asphalt & PavingSandProducer
Bay Co. PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Calloway PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gulf Asphalt Corp.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bay County

Storms near this place

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bay Harbor in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2022: 2 flash flood. 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
March 2022Flash FloodBay Harbor-Flash flooding was reported along Cherry St.
January 2021Flash FloodBay Harbor-Water around 6 inches deep reached the rims of tires near Highway 22 and Cherry Street as well as Bob Little Road due to heavy rainfall of a few inches in a short period of time.

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
Springfield0.5 miles15
Millville0.9 miles17
Parker1.3 miles15
Glenwood1.7 miles17
Cedar Grove1.7 miles17
Cove1.8 miles17
Old Callaway2.3 miles15
Cromanton2.4 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 278200. 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.