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Choctaw Bay Estates, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Walton Beaches census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32459. It stands on McQuage Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Freeport quadrangle.

Choctaw Bay Estates within Walton County

Then and now

1936 to 1996

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 Choctaw Bay Estates, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet of Choctaw Bay Estates, surveyed 1936

Compare 1936 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

152 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Choctaw Bay Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,000 acres in total. 22 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Debris and open burning26
Railroad operations and maintenance24
Natural22
Equipment and vehicle use20
Smoking11
Arson/incendiarism10
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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 2020Natural270 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBUNKER COVE (66)
3 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service66/HWY 283-0939
22 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceW WILD BLUEBERRY WAY (66)
22 September 2009Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service66/PWSF-0620
21 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHWY 98 1309 (66)
20 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLYNN DRIVE (66)
19 September 2015Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceINTERCOASTAL (66)
14 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walton County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Choctaw Bay Estates: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand. 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
Dot Defuniak Springs - Stiller MineSandUnknown

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Point Washington1.2 miles17
Choctaw1.8 miles17
Bunker2.9 miles16
Grayton Beach3.5 miles17
Fluffy Landing3.7 miles16
Watercolor3.8 miles17
La Grange Point3.9 miles16
Seaside3.9 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 Q122562465The 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 301675. 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.