Beacon Hill, Florida

The same ground, surveyed 44 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1944 1988

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.

• 1944 USGS Beacon Hill quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
• 1949 USGS Apalachicola quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Beacon Hill quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Apalachicola quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1959 USGS Apalachicola quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Apalachicola quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Apalachicola quadrangle1:250000
• 1978 USGS Port Saint Joe quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1982 USGS Beacon Hill quadrangle1:24000
• 1988 USGS Apalachicola quadrangle1:250000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Beacon Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,610 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 8 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Saint Joe Beach
• Overstreet

Every fire recorded in Gulf County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beacon Hill in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 2 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 waterspout. 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.

Every storm recorded in Gulf County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 278268. 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.

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.