Farmdale, Florida

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Mexico Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32403. It stands on Farmdale Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Allanton quadrangle.

Farmdale within Bay County

Then and now

1945 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 43 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Farmdale, surveyed 1988

Topographic sheet of Farmdale, surveyed 1945

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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.

1945 USGS Allanton quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
1947 USGS Allanton quadrangle1:25000
1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Allanton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Panama City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Allanton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

59 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Farmdale between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4,816 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 6 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
Natural	25
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Arson/incendiarism	6
Debris and open burning	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Smoking	1
Other causes	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
1 September 2014	Natural	720 acres	Florida Forest Service	LATHROP BAYOU (03)
29 August 2016	Natural	10 acres	Florida Forest Service	N. LONG ST (23)
23 August 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
11 August 2009	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Florida Forest Service	03/ALLENTON FIRE-0562
8 July 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
8 July 2000	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
8 July 2000	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
8 July 2000	Natural	140 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Allanton	1.1 miles	18
Davis Beach	3.6 miles	15
Wetappo	3.6 miles	18
Mexico Beach	5.6 miles	15
Cook	7.8 miles	16
San Blas	8.9 miles	16
Long Point	9.6 miles	16
Old Callaway	10.2 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295273. 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.