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Gulf Resort Beach, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Panama City Beaches census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32413. The Survey maps it on the Laguna Beach quadrangle.

Gulf Resort Beach within Bay County

Then and now

1943 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Gulf Resort Beach, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Gulf Resort Beach, surveyed 1943

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Gulf Resort Beach between 1992 and 2017, burning about 776 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined20
Natural16
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use11
Debris and open burning10
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks1

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
5 September 2008Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service03/#3 S POWERLINE-0593
5 September 2008Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service03/#1 E.HWY 79-0591
20 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresFlorida Forest Service03/ PALMETTO TRACE-0542
17 September 2015Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePOWERLINE RD (03)
10 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2000Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2015Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCABANA WEST (03)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bay County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Gulf Resort Beach: 1 unknown. None of them 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
Bay-Walton Services, L. C. - Beaches MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Bay County

Storms near this place

13 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gulf Resort Beach in 13 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. 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
February 2021Tornado (EF0)Gulf Resort Beach$5,000A brief EF0 tornado came onshore just west of Pier Park shortly after 2pm CT on February 15th. Minor damage to structures near the beach was noted, along with damage to poles, bleachers, and fencing at Frank Brown Park before the tornado dissipated. The tornado is estimated to have had peak winds around 85 mph and less than 50 yards wide. Additional damage to the east of the path was likely due to damaging straight line winds from the rear flank downdraft of the parent supercell. Winds in this area may have been as high as 80 mph.
February 2021Thunderstorm WindGulf Resort Beach$5,000Roof damage occurred to a 3 unit duplex.
February 2013Thunderstorm WindGulf Resort Beach$2,000Power lines were blown down near Highway 79. Monetary damage was estimated.
April 2024Flash FloodGulf Resort Beach-Water was over the road near a construction site along Front Beach Road.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindGulf Resort Beach-The public estimated winds near 60 mph.
April 2023HailGulf Resort Beach-Quarter to half dollar sized hail was reported at the intersection of Highway 79 and 98.
December 2022Thunderstorm WindGulf Resort Beach-The WeatherFlow station at Panama City Beach measured a wind gust of 58 mph.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindGulf Resort Beach-The NOS station at the Panama City Beach Pier reported a 62 mph wind gust.
February 2021Thunderstorm WindGulf Resort Beach-Station PCBF1 measured a wind gust of 75 mph.
September 2020Flash FloodGulf Resort Beach-Water was reported over the west bound lanes of Highway 98 near Griffin Blvd.
February 2016Thunderstorm WindGulf Resort Beach-A wind gust of 58 mph was measured at the Panama City tide gauge PCBF1.
July 2013Flash FloodGulf Resort Beach-Multiple photos were received showing several cars stalled in deep water in the Panama City Beach area. Water had also encroached into some buildings in both Panama City Beach and Panama City. The flooding was described as some of the worst residents had seen in that area.
June 2008Funnel CloudGulf Resort Beach-The public sighted a funnel cloud near the corner of Manistee Drive and U.S. Highway 98.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Laguna Beach2.1 miles16
Open Sands2.2 miles17
Bid-A-Wee2.6 miles17
Florida Beach2.6 miles17
Bahama Beach3.2 miles17
Sunnyside3.5 miles16
Hollywood Beach4.1 miles16
Edgewater Gulf Beach4.5 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 Q122598684The 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 283499. 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.