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Carrabelle Beach, Florida

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Eastpoint census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32322. It stands on Boggy Jordan Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Carrabelle quadrangle.

Carrabelle Beach within Franklin County

Then and now

1943 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Carrabelle Beach, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Carrabelle Beach, surveyed 1943

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

119 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Carrabelle Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 362 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Railroad operations and maintenance23
Debris and open burning18
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Equipment and vehicle use13
Natural9
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony4
Other causes2
Smoking2
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
4 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance8.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(19) RIVER ROAD FIRE
28 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(19) SANBORN ROAD FIRE
28 September 2006Recreation and ceremony15 acresFlorida Forest Service(19) WARREN BLUFF COMMAND
20 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(19) SAND SPUR FIRE
20 September 1996Smoking6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceLAGOON (19-5)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carrabelle Beach in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 3 waterspout, 2 tornado, 1 storm surge/tide, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 2002Storm Surge/TideCarrabelle Beach$500,000Storm surge heights of four feet combined with large battering waves eroded sand up to five feet deep at Dog Island. Two homes partially collapsed. At St. George Island, moderate beach erosion occurred. Overwash undermined a portion of Highway 98 near Carrabelle Beach. Reported by the Franklin County EMA.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindCarrabelle Beach-Fallen trees or limbs resulted in a power outage along Frank McKamey Way.
June 2000WaterspoutCarrabelle Beach-Large waterspout sighted near Dog Island. Reported by the Franklin County EMA.
June 2000Tornado (F0)Carrabelle Beach-A waterspout briefly came ashore and dissipated. No damage indicated. Reported by the Franklin County EMA.
July 2000Tornado (F0)Carrabelle Beach-A waterspout came ashore over Dog Island. No injuries or damage. Reported by the public and the Franklin County Sheriff.
July 2000WaterspoutCarrabelle Beach-A waterspout was sighted just offshore of Dog Island. Reported by the public on Dog Island and Carrabelle Beach.
November 1998WaterspoutCarrabelle Beach-Several waterspouts sighted off St. George Island and Carrabelle Beach.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Carrabelle Lighthouse1.0 miles20
Carrabelle1.8 miles20
Yent Place2.3 miles20
Lanark Village5.9 miles20
High Bluff7.5 miles17
Pine Log7.7 miles20
Big Blackjack Landing7.9 miles20
Green Point9.4 miles17

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 Q122543415The 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 280070. 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.