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Escambia Farms, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Baker census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32531. It stands on Dry Ford Branch. The Survey maps it on the Blackman quadrangle. It stands 217 feet above sea level.

Escambia Farms within Okaloosa County

Then and now

1949 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 29 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Escambia Farms, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Escambia Farms, surveyed 1949

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

114 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Escambia Farms between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,122 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 16 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/undetermined29
Debris and open burning24
Arson/incendiarism16
Equipment and vehicle use13
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Natural9
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Other causes2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
28 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceGOOD HOPE (46)
23 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service46-NANA'S FIRE - 0906
13 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSTATE LINE (46)
13 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSMALL FIRE. - 1083
30 August 2000Natural11 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 July 2006Arson/incendiarism40 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSHERMAN KENNEDY FIRE-1146
4 July 2012Natural35 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSANDHILL (46)
2 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.3 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Okaloosa County

Storms near this place

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Escambia Farms in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2009: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindEscambia Farms$12,000High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees and power lines near Escambia Farms.
January 1999Thunderstorm WindEscambia Farms$10,000High winds produced damage to buildings.
March 2009Flash FloodEscambia Farms-Rainfall amounts of 6 to 8 inches caused widespread flooding across northern portions of the county. Numerous water rescues were needed.

Every storm recorded in Okaloosa 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
Good Hope0.8 miles14
Blackman2.3 miles14
Oak Grove4.2 miles13
Peaden4.3 miles13
Clear Springs6.7 miles14
Cannon Town7.4 miles13
Rock Creek7.7 miles12
Okaloo8.3 miles13

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 Escambia FarmsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5396852The 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 305640. 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.