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Floridatown, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Pace census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32571. It stands on Barnett Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pace quadrangle. 319 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 13 feet above sea level.

Floridatown 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 Floridatown, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Floridatown, surveyed 1920

Compare 1920 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Floridatown grew from 244 to 319 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
2010244
2020319+75 (+31%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

309 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 309 fires within 5 miles of Floridatown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 958 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 13 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 maintenance86
Debris and open burning54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Misuse of fire by a minor41
Equipment and vehicle use36
Arson/incendiarism13
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Recreation and ceremony8
Natural7
Smoking7
Fireworks4
Other causes2

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
4 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSANDBORN DRIVE (57)
27 September 2004Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceGOLF COURSE FIRE-1132
27 September 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance4.3 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMULAT RAILROAD FIRE-1108
12 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHAMILTON GULLY FIRE-1100

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Rosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Floridatown: 3 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Santa Rosa Co. Road Dept. - Avalon MineClayUnknown
Santa Rosa PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Edward M. Chadburn, Inc. - Santa Rosa MineSandUnknown
Salter/3-C's - Pea Ridge MineSandUnknownSand

Every working recorded in Santa Rosa County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Floridatown in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 2 tornado, 1 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
April 2024Tornado (EF1)Floridatown-The tornado began just southwest of Sterling way near Escambia Bay. The tornado quickly intensified as it approached Peach Dr. where numerous homes suffered shingle damage. A very large oak tree was snapped with several other large hardwood branches snapped. Numerous homes lost fences and as a result the tornado was rated at its peak intensity here. The tornado continued northeast across peach Dr towards Red Cedar Rd. Numerous homes suffered shingle damage, large branches removed from trees and fencing damage. A small metal shed was lifted and deposited on Red Cedar Lane and another house had multiple 2x4s shot into the side of the house. A very small but noticeable convergent path was located here. The tornado then rapidly weakened as it approached bell lane where some smaller branches were snapped. Update 4/16/2024 After review of available Planet satellite imagery, it was determined the tornado began prior to the L N railroad crossing, moving onshore off Escambia Bay. Special thanks to NASA SPoRT for providing the imagery to support this extension in the tornado path. This portion of the track was solely in the forest and will be re-assessed later for assigning DI's if higher resolution satellite imagery becomes available.
April 2020Tornado (EF0)Floridatown-NWS Storm Survey found a brief EF-0 tornado track from Ephrem Ln to Bradley Dr in the city of Pace. The tornado resulted in tree damage and some roof damage to a home.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindFloridatown-A large tree was blown onto a mobile home by severe thunderstorm winds near 60 mph on Diamond Street in Pace. Eight people were evacuated from the home.

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
Pace1.3 miles17
Mulat2.7 miles15
Harp2.9 miles15
Avalon Beach4.5 miles15
Galt City5.2 miles15
Bagdad6.7 miles15
Wallace6.8 miles14
Milton7.0 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 FloridatownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5863215The 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 282625. 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.