Big Hammock, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Freeport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32578. It stands on Eagle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Choctaw Beach quadrangle.

Big Hammock within Walton County

Then and now

1935 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 59 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Big Hammock, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Big Hammock, surveyed 1935

Compare 1935 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.

1935 USGS Villa Tasso quadrangle1:48000
1938 USGS Villa Tasso quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1956 USGS Villa Tasso quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Choctaw Beach quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Fort Walton Beach quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1994 USGS Choctaw Beach quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Big Hammock between 1993 and 2015, burning about 211 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Debris and open burning	1
Fireworks	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
25 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	HOWARD ST (66)
4 August 1993	Natural	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
5 July 2006	Fireworks	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	830
3 July 2015	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	E SHIPWRECK RD (66)
17 July 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	120 acres	Eglin Air Force Base	CASA LOMA
17 April 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	85 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
4 March 2009	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	66/CHOCTAW BEACH-0281
29 March 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walton 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Villa Tasso	1.1 miles	18
Choctaw Beach	1.4 miles	17
Turquoise Beach	5.0 miles	17
The Village of Baytowne Wharf	5.9 miles	17
Seascape	6.3 miles	17
Sandestin	6.3 miles	17
Miramar Beach	6.4 miles	15
Tang-O-Mar Beach	6.6 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 301671. 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.