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Indian Pass, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Port St. Joe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32456. It stands on Money Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Cape San Blas quadrangle.

Indian Pass within Gulf 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 Indian Pass, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Indian Pass, surveyed 1943

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

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Indian Pass between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,249 acres in total. 38 started naturally. None was 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
Natural38
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2020Natural51 acresFlorida Forest ServiceDEPOT CREEK (23)
6 September 2020Natural374 acresSt. Vincent National Wildlife RefugeINDIAN PASS FIRE
6 September 1995Natural30 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 September 1995Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresFlorida Forest Service07/CAPE SAN BLAS-0970
30 September 1993Debris and open burning21 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2006Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service23/ VETRO
7 August 2006Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Service23/BUFFER FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gulf County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Indian Pass in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
April 2003Tornado (F0)Indian Pass$250,000A waterspout came ashore near Windward Street on Cape San Blas. The weak tornado uprooted trees and power lines, and damaged a dozen homes as it moved northeast through Port, Leeward and Angle Fish Streets. Reported by the Gulf County EMA.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindIndian Pass$25,000Gazebos picked up and thrown against a house. Its windows were blown out and roof damaged. Reported by the Gulf County Sheriff.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindIndian Pass-An Ambient weather station gusted to 62 mph.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindIndian Pass-The Salinas Park WeatherSTEM gusted to 51 knots.
September 2020Flash FloodIndian Pass-Flooding was reported in the Indian Pass area.
August 2015Tornado (EF0)Indian Pass-A brief tornado touched down in St. Joseph Bay State Buffer Preserve just west of Indian Pass in Gulf County. Only minor damage to trees was reported. However, the tornado was confirmed via social media reports and eyewitness video obtained through a local media partner.
February 1998Thunderstorm WindIndian Pass-60 mph wind gut recorded at the Cape San Blas C-MAN station.

Every storm recorded in Gulf 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
Odena5.4 miles15
Niles6.7 miles16
Ward Ridge6.9 miles16
Oak Grove7.1 miles16
Port Saint Joe8.6 miles16
Milltown10.0 miles16
Highland View10.5 miles16
White City13.6 miles14

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 Indian PassAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6021206The 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 295443. 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.