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Beulah, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cantonment census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32526. The Survey maps it on the Seminole quadrangle.

Beulah within Escambia County

Then and now

1921 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 60 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Beulah, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Beulah, surveyed 1921

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

147 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Beulah between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,750 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 10 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
Equipment and vehicle use35
Railroad operations and maintenance28
Debris and open burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism10
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Natural7
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks2
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1

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
4 September 1994Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 September 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 September 1997Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMM 4.5 FIRE (17)-0474
13 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Escambia County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Beulah: 1 occurrence, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Panhandle Grading & Paving, Inc. - Surrey MineClayUnknown
Panhandle Paving and Grading - Eight MileClayProducerClay
Unnamed Clay DepositClayOccurrence

Every working 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
Pine Forest4.6 miles17
Muscogee4.9 miles16
Farm Hill6.0 miles17
Cantonment6.1 miles17
Ramsey Beach6.6 miles18
Gonzalez6.7 miles17
Bellview6.8 miles18
Ensley6.9 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295132. 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.