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Dune Allen Beach, 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 Irwin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Grayton Beach quadrangle.

Dune Allen Beach 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 Dune Allen Beach, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet of Dune Allen Beach, surveyed 1936

Compare 1936 against another survey:

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

218 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 218 fires within 5 miles of Dune Allen Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,458 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 9 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
Debris and open burning41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Railroad operations and maintenance34
Equipment and vehicle use24
Misuse of fire by a minor21
Smoking21
Natural20
Arson/incendiarism9
Fireworks5
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2003Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMONKS LANE
7 September 1997Smokingunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2003-02-1082
23 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHWY 98 1309 (66)
21 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

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
Beach Highlands0.4 miles17
Blue Gulf Beach2.1 miles17
Blue Mountain Beach2.6 miles17
Santa Rosa Beach3.1 miles16
Grosh3.6 miles17
Grayton Beach4.4 miles17
Four Mile Village4.4 miles15
The Village of Baytowne Wharf5.0 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 Q122591711The 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 281859. 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.