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Four Mile Village, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Walton Beaches census division. It sits by Topsail Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Miramar Beach quadrangle.

Four Mile Village within Walton County

Then and now

1938 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 40 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Four Mile Village, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Four Mile Village, surveyed 1938

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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 Four Mile Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,433 acres in total. 13 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Railroad operations and maintenance18
Debris and open burning17
Smoking15
Equipment and vehicle use15
Natural13
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Arson/incendiarism6
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 2003Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMONKS LANE
7 September 1997Smokingunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceROBERT RD (66)
12 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service66/BAMBI PLACE2005-02-0562

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walton County

Storms near this place

4 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Four Mile Village in 4 storm reports between 2015 and 2024: 2 flash flood, 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
September 2024Flash FloodFour Mile Village-Pointe of View Condos behind Grand Blvd flooded with knee deep water up to the doors of some vehicles.
February 2016Thunderstorm WindFour Mile Village-Trees were blown down in Topsill State Park.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindFour Mile Village-A tree was blown down onto the Emerald Coast Parkway and blocked the road.
September 2015Flash FloodFour Mile Village-County Road 30A was closed due to 1 to 2 feet of water over the road.

Every storm recorded in Walton 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
Sandestin0.7 miles17
Gulf Pines0.7 miles15
The Village of Baytowne Wharf1.0 miles17
Tang-O-Mar Beach1.2 miles15
Miramar Beach1.9 miles15
Turquoise Beach2.5 miles17
Grosh2.6 miles17
Seascape2.6 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 Q122547169The 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 295301. 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.