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East Milton, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the East Milton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32583. It stands on Pond Creek. The Survey maps it on the Milton South quadrangle. 14,309 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 13 feet above sea level.

East Milton within Santa Rosa County

Then and now

1920 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 74 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of East Milton, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of East Milton, surveyed 1920

Compare 1920 against another survey:

On record in East Milton

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 2 records

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

Population over time

2 figures

East Milton grew from 11,074 to 14,309 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201011,074
202014,309+3,235 (+29%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

514 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 514 fires within 5 miles of East Milton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,037 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 33 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
Railroad operations and maintenance175
Debris and open burning91
Missing data/not specified/undetermined71
Equipment and vehicle use62
Misuse of fire by a minor39
Arson/incendiarism33
Smoking20
Recreation and ceremony9
Natural7
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes2
Fireworks2

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 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2004Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceNEW LAKE FIRE-1076
6 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePARKER RD FIRE-1065
5 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2019Debris and open burning1.8 acresFlorida Forest ServicePATTERSON TOWN (57)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Rosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of East Milton: 13 unknowns, 2 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gault City PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gault City PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kehoe Farm Clay DepositClayUnknown
Santa Rosa Co. Road Dept. - Avalon MineClayUnknown
Santa Rosa Co. Road Dept. - Geiger MineClayUnknown
Unnamed Clay DepositClayProspect
Dot Pensacola - Rest Area MineSandUnknown
Edward M. Chadburn, Inc. - Hickory Hammock MineSandUnknown
Edward M. Chadburn, Inc. - T-Field MineSandUnknown
Edward M. Chadburn, Inc. - Ward Basin MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Santa Rosa 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
Bagdad1.2 miles15
Milton1.5 miles15
Ward Basin2.4 miles20
Galt City2.6 miles15
Pine Bluff4.5 miles20
Roeville4.5 miles18
Point Baker5.4 miles15
Harp5.9 miles15

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.

Wikipedia article on East MiltonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8771466The 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 282001. 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.