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Edgewater Gulf Beach, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Panama City Beaches census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32407. The Survey maps it on the Panama City Beach quadrangle.

Edgewater Gulf Beach within Bay County

Then and now

1943 to 1988

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 Edgewater Gulf Beach, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Edgewater Gulf Beach, surveyed 1943

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

119 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Edgewater Gulf Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 833 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined30
Misuse of fire by a minor17
Recreation and ceremony16
Arson/incendiarism14
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural10
Debris and open burning9
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Smoking3
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
8 September 2014Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceG MILES INTERIOR (03)
8 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresFlorida Forest Service03/ PALMETTO TRACE-0542
2 September 2014Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCHURCHWELL (03)
17 September 1995Natural60 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2000Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceFRONT BEACH (3)
12 September 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bay 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 Edgewater Gulf Beach: 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
Baxter's Asphalt and Concreate, I - Panama City Beach MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Bay County

Storms near this place

7 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edgewater Gulf Beach in 7 storm reports between 2012 and 2022: 2 lightning, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
April 2020Tornado (EF0)Edgewater Gulf Beach$50,000Tornado moved onshore in along Panama City Beach just west of Lower Grand Lagoon. Only minor damage was reported in Panama City Beach. The tornado cross St. Andrew Bay and impacted the area around the marina in downtown Panama City. Several unsecured construction trailers were destroyed along with a camper trailer. The tornado continued moving east through the Cove neighborhood before dissipating just east of the North Tyndall Parkway. Reports from Bay County EMA, along with media reports from WMBB and WJHG were used to analyze this tornado.
September 2022LightningEdgewater Gulf Beach$10,000Lightning struck a pine tree on Coyote Pass in the Glades Community, which caused a water main break.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindEdgewater Gulf Beach$5,000A broadcast meteorologist from Macon, GA on vacation reported shingles peeling off the roof at the Gulf Highlands Resort.
December 2018Thunderstorm WindEdgewater Gulf Beach$1,000There were a few power outages due to wind along Front Beach Road as strong to severe storms moved through the area. There were also a few reports of strong winds on social media. Winds were measured in excess of 40 knots at the PCBF1 tide gauge nearby.
July 2012LightningEdgewater Gulf Beach$1,000Lightning struck a power pole and knocked out power while leaving some debris in the roadway. Middle Beach Road at Hale Avenue was blocked to westbound traffic. This was reported by WJHG-TV via Twitter. Monetary damage was estimated.
September 2022Flash FloodEdgewater Gulf Beach-Water was over the roadway on Alf Coleman Road.
August 2020Flash FloodEdgewater Gulf Beach-Multiple vehicles were disabled due to flooding on Richard Jackson Blvd between Back Beach and Middle Beach Road.

Every storm recorded in Bay 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
Long Beach Resort0.8 miles17
Panama City Beach1.1 miles17
West Panama City Beach1.1 miles17
Bahama Beach1.4 miles17
Florida Beach1.9 miles17
Bid-A-Wee1.9 miles17
Gulf Lagoon Beach2.3 miles17
Open Sands2.4 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 Q122567035The 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 282087. 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.

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.