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Hollywood 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 Seminole Hills quadrangle.

Hollywood 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 Hollywood Beach, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Hollywood Beach, surveyed 1943

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

87 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Hollywood Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,462 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 9 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
Natural24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use14
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism9
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
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
17 September 2015Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePOWERLINE RD (03)
15 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use60 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bay 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 Hollywood Beach: 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium-Heavy Minerals, Zirconium, 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
Panama City-Phillips Inlet PlacerTitanium-Heavy Minerals, ZirconiumOccurrenceStaurolite, Kyanite, Zircon, Rutile, Leucoxene, Ilmenite

Every working recorded in Bay County

Storms near this place

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hollywood Beach in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
May 2014FloodHollywood Beach$5,000,000Heavy rain from the previous week breached the levee in the Intracoastal Waterway at the Bay-Walton county line, shutting down barge traffic. This resulted in a local gas shortage for Panama City as none of the barges could deliver gasoline to the local market. The Army Corps of Engineers estimated that a permanent fix will cost up to $5 million.
April 2014FloodHollywood Beach$1,840,000Major flooding occurred across Bay county at the end of the month due to a combination of very heavy rainfall and already saturated conditions. Many roads in the county sustained damage with damage estimated at $1,591,122. In addition, some businesses suffered flood damage with estimates at approximately $250,000.
January 2000Thunderstorm WindHollywood Beach$10,000An awning blown off a building reported by the public.
October 2006Tornado (F0)Hollywood Beach$5,000A waterspout came ashore near Phillips Inlet and U.S. Highway 98. The brief tornado flipped a large truck on its side in the Winn Dixie parking lot before lifting over Powell Lake. Reported by a SKYWARN storm spotter.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindHollywood Beach-Trees were blown down. This report was obtained via mping.
October 2021Flash FloodHollywood Beach-Media showed pictures of flooding in a neighborhood in the Riviera Drive and Pompano Ave area. Water was surrounding homes and covered the road. Rainfall of around 5 inches occurred in a 3 hour period.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindHollywood Beach-A cable line was blown down in the Laguna Beach area.

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
Sunnyside0.5 miles16
Laguna Beach2.0 miles16
Gulf Resort Beach4.1 miles16
Laird4.6 miles16
West Bay5.8 miles18
Open Sands6.2 miles17
Florida Beach6.7 miles17
Bid-A-Wee6.7 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295353. 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.