Grosh, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Walton Beaches census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32459. It stands on Hewett Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Choctaw Beach quadrangle.

Grosh within Walton County

Then and now

1935 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 59 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Grosh, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Grosh, surveyed 1935

Compare 1935 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1935 USGS Villa Tasso quadrangle1:48000
1938 USGS Villa Tasso quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1956 USGS Villa Tasso quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Choctaw Beach quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Fort Walton Beach quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1994 USGS Choctaw Beach quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

205 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 205 fires within 5 miles of Grosh between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,986 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 8 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
Debris and open burning	38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	37
Railroad operations and maintenance	32
Smoking	21
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Misuse of fire by a minor	20
Natural	19
Arson/incendiarism	8
Fireworks	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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
9 September 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
7 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	MONKS LANE
7 September 1997	Smoking	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
4 September 1995	Railroad operations and maintenance	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
23 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	2003-02-1082
23 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
21 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
20 September 2015	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Florida Forest Service	CRAWFISH ALLEY (66)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Turquoise Beach	1.8 miles	17
The Village of Baytowne Wharf	2.3 miles	17
Four Mile Village	2.6 miles	15
Sandestin	2.7 miles	17
Santa Rosa Beach	2.9 miles	16
Gulf Pines	3.2 miles	15
Beach Highlands	3.4 miles	17
Dune Allen Beach	3.6 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 301669. 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.