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Lower Grand Lagoon, Florida

17 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 32408. The Survey maps it on the Panama City Beach quadrangle. 4,398 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Lower Grand Lagoon 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 Lower Grand Lagoon, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Lower Grand Lagoon, surveyed 1943

Population over time

2 figures

Lower Grand Lagoon grew from 3,881 to 4,398 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20103,881
20204,398+517 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

90 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Lower Grand Lagoon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 313 acres in total. 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Recreation and ceremony13
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural7
Debris and open burning6
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2014Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceG MILES INTERIOR (03)
8 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2014Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCHURCHWELL (03)
18 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 1995Natural60 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2000Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceFRONT BEACH (3)
12 September 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lower Grand Lagoon: 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
Baxter's Asphalt and Concreate, I - Panama City Beach MineSandUnknown

Every working 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
Biltmore Beach0.4 miles17
Upper Grand Lagoon1.4 miles17
Magnolia Beach1.7 miles17
Delwood Beach2.0 miles17
Gulf Lagoon Beach2.4 miles17
Saint Andrew3.4 miles17
Panama City Beach3.7 miles17
West Panama City Beach3.7 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.

Wikipedia article on Lower Grand LagoonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2513076The 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 1867171. 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.