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Choctaw, Florida

17 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 Peach Creek. The Survey maps it on the Point Washington quadrangle.

Choctaw 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, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet of Choctaw, surveyed 1936

Compare 1936 against another survey:

On record in Choctaw

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Fires near this place

101 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Choctaw between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,865 acres in total. 19 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
Natural19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Railroad operations and maintenance16
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use12
Arson/incendiarism10
Smoking8
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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)
19 September 2015Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceINTERCOASTAL (66)
14 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2008Arson/incendiarism40 acresFlorida Forest Service66/#1 BUNKER ROAD-0568

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Point Washington0.5 miles17
Choctaw Bay Estates1.8 miles16
Bunker1.9 miles16
Seagrove Beach3.6 miles17
Seaside3.7 miles17
Watercolor3.8 miles17
Grayton Beach4.0 miles17
Fluffy Landing4.7 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295193. 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.