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Floridale, Florida

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Harold census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32583. The Survey maps it on the Floridale quadrangle.

Floridale within Santa Rosa County

Then and now

1934 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 44 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Floridale, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Floridale, surveyed 1934

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.

Fires near this place

338 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 338 fires within 5 miles of Floridale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,851 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 49 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
Equipment and vehicle use134
Missing data/not specified/undetermined53
Arson/incendiarism49
Debris and open burning34
Railroad operations and maintenance31
Natural10
Smoking9
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Other causes1

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
3 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2004Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceOUTLOOK RD FIRE-1134
25 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBRYANT BRIDGE SET1 (57)
22 September 2004Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHWY 90 POWER LINE-1105
18 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceGARNIERR LANDING (57)
16 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Rosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Floridale: 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 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
Dot Pensacola - County Line MineSandUnknown
Okaloosa Asphalt Co. - Okaloosa Asphalt PitSandProducer

Every working recorded in Santa Rosa County

Storms near this place

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Floridale in 2 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 1999Thunderstorm WindFloridale$3,000A few trees were blown down along I-10 near Floridale (near the Okaloosa County line).
March 2022Thunderstorm WindFloridale-Strong winds downed a large oak tree at Blackwater Fish Hatchery.

Every storm 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
Harold2.8 miles18
Parkerville4.0 miles17
Indian Ford5.1 miles18
Spring Hill8.1 miles13
Roeville8.3 miles18
Broxson9.1 miles20
Ward Basin10.8 miles20
East Milton10.8 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.

Wikidata item Q122539655The 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 294771. 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.