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Dalkeith, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Port St. Joe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32465. The Survey maps it on the Wewahitchka quadrangle.

Dalkeith within Gulf County

Then and now

1945 to 1990

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 Dalkeith, surveyed 1990
Topographic sheet of Dalkeith, surveyed 1945

Compare 1945 against another survey:

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

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Dalkeith between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,743 acres in total. 17 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
Natural17
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism7
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 August 2000Natural119 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 August 2000Natural55 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 July 2004Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceROBBINSON BAY AREA
22 July 1995Natural12 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 July 1994Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 June 2008Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service23/CANAL FIRE-0456

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gulf County

Storms near this place

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dalkeith in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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
July 2000Thunderstorm WindDalkeith$300,000Ten mobile homes damaged (one severely) and one frame home severely damaged near State Road 71 and Overstreet Road. One mobile home was shifted off its foundation. Reported by a WJHG-TV meteorologist and the Florida EOC.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindDalkeith$4,000Downed trees and power poles were reported in Gulf county.
January 2014Thunderstorm WindDalkeith$1,000Trees were blown down near County Road 381.
June 2024Flash FloodDalkeith-The public reported flooding in the Dalkeith area from heavy rainfall in a short period of time.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindDalkeith-Trees were blown down along County Road 381.
March 2024HailDalkeith-no account filed
March 2024HailDalkeith-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gulf 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
Gaskins Still2.7 miles15
Honeyville4.1 miles15
Wewahitchka7.8 miles15
Lake Grove8.0 miles15
Early8.5 miles16
White City9.1 miles14
Iola9.9 miles15
Majette10.2 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295235. 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.