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Brannonville, 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 32404. It stands on Minge Branch. The Survey maps it on the Springfield quadrangle.

Brannonville 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 Brannonville, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Brannonville, 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

295 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 295 fires within 5 miles of Brannonville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,886 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 29 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 minor73
Missing data/not specified/undetermined52
Debris and open burning34
Equipment and vehicle use29
Arson/incendiarism29
Railroad operations and maintenance26
Natural20
Smoking18
Recreation and ceremony7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Other causes2
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 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use60 acresFlorida Forest Service03 / CROSSROADS FIRE
3 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service03/HALSEY CIRCLE-0941
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
2 September 2004Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceKENT RD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bay County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Brannonville: 7 producers, 2 unknowns. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bay Co. PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bay PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Calloway PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pitts Sand Co. Lynn Haven PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bay County Board of Co. Comm. - Majette MineSandUnknown
Cato Enterprises, Inc. - Transmitter Road MineSandUnknown
Fla. Asphalt & PavingSandProducer
Gulf AsphaltSandProducer
Pitts Sd. & Gravel - MowatSandProducer

Every working recorded in Bay County

Storms near this place

7 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brannonville in 7 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 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 2014LightningBrannonville$200,000Lightning destroyed a home on Oak Forest Road in the Hiland Park area of Lynn Haven. Monetary damage was estimated.
March 2022Flash FloodBrannonville$3,000Flooding was reported in homes near the area of 3900 Silver Spur Road.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindBrannonville$2,000Power lines were blown down near Transmitter Road on Highway 231.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBrannonville-An Ambient weather station gusted to 62 mph.
February 2013HailBrannonville-The public reported quarter size hail on WJHG's facebook page.
September 2016HailBrannonville-no account filed
September 2014HailBrannonville-no account filed

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
Hiland Park2.4 miles17
Lynn Haven3.3 miles17
Dirego Park3.4 miles17
Bayou George3.8 miles15
Cedar Grove4.1 miles17
Glenwood4.8 miles17
Springfield5.0 miles15
Callaway5.1 miles15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122595511The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 279338. 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.